the Holy Ghost.' Therefore we must not separate nor part God and
man according to our natural reason and understanding. In like
manner, every hearer must conclude and say, I hear not St. Paul, St.
Peter, or a man speak; but I hear God himself speak, baptize,
absolve, excommunicate, and administer the holy sacrament of the
Lord's Supper, etc."

Bullinger, attentively hearkening to this discourse of that holy
man, Luther, fell down flat on his face to the ground, and uttered
these words following: "Oh, happy be the time that brought me
hither to hear the divine discourse of this man of God" (Martin
Luther), "a chosen vessel of the Lord to declare his truth! And now
I abjure and utterly renounce these my former errors, finding them
convinced and beaten down through God's infallible Word which out of
his divine mouth" (Martin Luther), "hath touched my heart, and won
me to his glory." After he had uttered these words lying on the
ground, he arose and clasped his arms about Luther's neck, both of
them shedding joyful tears.

Ah, God! said Luther at that time, what an unspeakable comfort a
poor, weak, and sorrowful conscience might have and receive, if it
could but believe that such words and comforts were the words and
comforts of God himself, as in truth they are; therefore we
conclude, short and round, that God through the Word worketh, which
is an instrument whereby we are instructed to know him in heart, as
by this present and happy example of the conversion of this our
loving brother, Bullinger, we apparently see and find.

But whereas, said Luther, the Word produceth not fruit everywhere
alike, but worketh severally, the same is God's judgment, and his