Part 41 (1/2)

Preserve us froreat vice of avarice and the desire or the riches of this world Keep us, that we may not seek this world's honor and power, nor consent to the desire for them Preserve us, that the world's deceit, pretences and false promises may not move us to walk in its ways Preserve us, that the wickedness and the adversities of the world e, wrath or other vices Help us to renounce the world's lies and deceits, its proood and evil (as we have already promised in baptisrow therein from day to day

[Sidenote: The Devil]

Preserve us froestions of the devil, that we may not consent to pride, become self-satisfied, and despise others for the sake of riches, rank, power, knowledge, beauty or other good gifts of Thine

Preserve us, that we all not into hatred or envy or any cause

Preserve us, that we yield not to despair, that great temptation of our faith, neither now nor at our last hour

Have in Thy keeping, heavenly Father, all who strive and labor against these great and ; raise up all those who have fallen and are overcorace, that in this miserable and uncertain life, incessantly surrounded by so ht with constancy, and with a fir crown

The Seventh Petition: _Deliver us from evil_

[Sidenote: The Seventh Petition]

_This ainst all that is evil in pain and punishment; as the holy Church prays in the litanies: Deliver us, O Father, from Thine eternal wrath and froment, in death and at the last day Deliver us frohtning and hail Preserve us from famine and scarcity Preserve us froues, pestilence, the French sickness, and other grievous diseases Preserve us from all evils and necessities of body, yet in such wise that in all these things Thy Nadom increased and Thy divine Will be done Amen

AMEN

[Sidenote: The A, to obtain all these petitions, and suffer us not to doubt that Thou hast heard us and wilt hear us in them all; that it is ”Yea,” not ”Nay,” and not ”Perhaps” Therefore we say with joy, ”Amen--it is true and certain” Amen

FOOTNOTES

[1] For this translation see Vol I, p 222, note 1

[2] The law that we have outside of divine revelation Cf Rom 2:15

[3] The possessor of these letters (_Hiht to be under the special protection of the spirits

[4] Magical formulas

[5] Practices popularly ascribed to the witches

[6] See below, p 364, note 1

[7] Luther believed, with theof money at interest was a sin See above pp 159 ff, and _Weimar Ed_, XXV, 293 ff

[8] i e, In the confession made to the priest See Vol I, p 285, and Introduction, above, p 351

[9] C Vol I, pp 58, 285

[10] In the manuals for confession hich Luther was familiar sins were divided into the various classes mentioned here C Vol I, pp

90 ff; Gecken, _Der Bilderkatechismus des XV Jhs_, and especially v

Zezschwitz, II, 197 ff