Martin Luther and Cardinal Cajetan
The following excerpt is from a memorandum which Luther presented to Cardinal Cajetan during their October meetings in Augsburg.
"It is necessary, under peril of eternal damnation and the sin of unbelief, to believe these words of Christ: Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed also in heaven. Therefore if you come forward to the sacrament of penance and do not believe firmly that you are absolved in heaven, you come forward to judgement and damnation, because you do not believe that Christ has spoken what is true: Whatever you loose, etc. . . . but when you believe the word of Christ, you honor his word and by this work you are righteous, etc."
- Martin Luther to Cajetan [D. Martin Luthers Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe (2:13-14)]
"It is necessary, under peril of eternal damnation and the sin of unbelief, to believe these words of Christ: Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed also in heaven. Therefore if you come forward to the sacrament of penance and do not believe firmly that you are absolved in heaven, you come forward to judgement and damnation, because you do not believe that Christ has spoken what is true: Whatever you loose, etc. . . . but when you believe the word of Christ, you honor his word and by this work you are righteous, etc."
- Martin Luther to Cajetan [D. Martin Luthers Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe (2:13-14)]
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