which way to take, whether this or that way be the right: even so
are we secure by the pure doctrine of the Gospel; we are sleepy and
negligent; we stand not in God's fear, nor defend ourselves with
prayer against the devil. But those that entertain errors are
highly busied, yea, they are very careful and diligent how to keep
and maintain the same.


Of the future Want of upright and true Preachers of God's Word.

In a short time, said Luther, will be such want of upright Preachers
and Ministers, that people would be glad to scratch out of the earth
these good and godly Teachers now living, if they might but get
them; then they will see what they have done in molesting and
contemning the Preachers and Ministers of God's Word. Of Physicians
and Lawyers there are enough, if not too many, to serve the world;
but a country hath need of two hundred Ministers where one Lawyer is
sufficient. My most gracious Lord, said Luther, the Prince Elector
of Saxony, hath enough of twenty Lawyers in all his territories, but
he must have near six thousand Preachers and Ministers.


That People, out of mere Wilfulness, do set themselves against God's
Word.

Had I known, said Luther, when I first began to write, what I now
see and find, namely, that people had been such enemies to God's
Word, and so fiercely had set themselves against the same, truly I
had held my peace; for I never should have been so courageous as to
have fallen upon the Pope, and to have angered him, and almost the