Christ, might have exclaimed in the same spirit:  “What do you talk to me of this, that, and the other intimate acquaintance of Euclid’s?  My object is to convey the sublime system of geometry which he realized, and by that must I decide.”  “I,” says St. Paul, “have been taught by the spirit of Christ, a teaching susceptible of no addition, and for which no personal anecdotes, however reverendly attested, can be a substitute.”  But dearest Luther was a translator; he could not, must not, see this.

Ib. p. 32.

  That God’s word, and the Christian Church, is preserved against the
  raging of the world.

The Papists have lost the cause; with God’s word they are not able to resist or withstand us. * * * ’The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together, &c’.  God will deal well enough with these angry gentlemen, and will give them but small thanks for their labor, in going about to suppress his word and servants; he hath sat in counsel above these five thousand five hundred years, hath ruled and made laws.  Good Sirs! be not so choleric; go further from the wall, lest you knock your pates against it.  ’Kiss the Son lest he be angry, &c’.  That is, take hold on Christ, or the Devil will take hold on you, &c.

The second Psalm (said Luther), is a proud Psalm against those fellows.  It begins mild and simply, but it endeth stately and rattling. * * * I have now angered the Pope about his images of idolatry.  O! how the sow raiseth her bristles! * * The Lord saith:  ‘Ego suscitabo vos in novissimo die’:  and then he will call and say:  ho!  Martin Luther, Philip Melancthon, Justus Jonas, John Calvin, &c.  Arise, come up, * * * Well on, (said Luther), let us be of good comfort.

A delicious paragraph.  How our fine preachers would turn up their Tom-tit beaks and flirt with their tails at it!  But this is the way in which the man of life, the man of power, sets the dry bones in motion.

Chap.  II. p. 37.

  This is the thanks that God hath for his grace, for creating, for
  redeeming, sanctifying, nourishing, and for preserving us:  such a
  seed, fruit, and godly child is the world.  O, woe be to it!

Too true.

Ib. p. 54.

  That out of the best comes the worst.

Out of the Patriarchs and holy Fathers came the Jews that crucified Christ; out of the Apostles came Judas the traitor; out of the city Alexandria (where a fair illustrious and famous school was, and from whence proceeded many upright and godly learned men), came Arius and Origenes.

Poor Origen!  Surely Luther was put to it for an instance, and had never read the works of that very best of the old Fathers, and eminently upright and godly learned man.

Ib.

  The sparrows are the least birds, and yet they are very hurtful, and
  have the best nourishment.

‘Ergo digni sunt omni persecutione’.  Poor little Philip Sparrows!  Luther did not know that they more than earn their good wages by destroying grubs and other small vermin.