presseth upon that point, and saith, "Such measure as thou metest,
the same shall be measured to thee again." With this measuring-
line, or measure, hath God marked the whole world. They that live
and do thereafter, well it is with them, for God doth richly reward
them in this life; and a Turk or a Heathen may as well be partaker
of such rewards as a Christian.


Where God's Word is loved, there dwelleth God.

Upon these words of Christ, "If a man loveth me, he will keep my
Word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and
make our abode with him," I say thus, said Luther: Heaven and
earth, the castles and palaces of all Emperors, Kings, and Princes,
are no way sufficient to make a dwelling-place for God; yet, in a
silly human creature that keepeth his Word he will dwell. Isaiah
calleth heaven his "seat," and earth his "footstool," but not his
dwelling; therefore, when we long to seek after God, we shall be
sure to find him with them that hear and keep his Word, as Christ
saith, "He that keepeth my Word, I will come and dwell with him."

A man could not speak more simply and childishly than Christ spake,
and yet he confounded therewith all the wisdom of the worldly-wise.
To speak in such a manner, said Luther, is not in sublimi, sed
humili genere: if I should teach a child, I would teach him in this
sort: "He that loves me, will keep my Word." Here we see that
Christ saith not, Abstain from flesh, from marrying, from
housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to
invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.