CHAPTER XXXII

. A LIFE FULL OF STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE _pages_ 319-375

1. ON LUTHER’S “TEMPTATIONS” IN GENERAL.

Some characteristic statements concerning his “combats and temptations” _pages_ 319-321

2. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE “TEMPTATIONS.”

“Supposing you had to answer for all the souls that perish!” “If you do not penance shall you not likewise perish?” “See how much evil arises from your doctrine!” _pages_ 321-326

3. AN EPISODE. TERRORS OF CONSCIENCE BECOME TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL.

Schlaginhaufen falls into a faint at Luther’s house. Luther persuades himself that his remorse of conscience comes from the devil _pages_ 326-330

4. PROGRESS OF HIS MENTAL SUFFERINGS UNTIL THEIR FLOOD-TIDE IN 1527-1528.

“What labour did it not cost me ... to denounce the Pope as Antichrist.” The height of the storm; “tossed about between death and hell”; “I seek only for a gracious God.” Luther pens his famous hymn, “A safe stronghold our God is still”; the hymn an echo of his struggles _pages_ 330-345

5. THE TEN YEARS FROM 1528-1538. HOW TO WIN BACK PEACE OF CONSCIENCE.

At the Coburg. “I should have died without a struggle.” The waning of the “struggles by day and by night”; thoughts of suicide; how to reach peace _pages_ 346-356

6. LUTHER ON HIS FAITH, HIS DOCTRINE, AND HIS DOUBTS, PARTICULARLY IN HIS LATER YEARS.

His notion of faith, (_a_) the accepting as true, (_b_) the believing trust. His picture of himself and his difficulties in late years; he compares his case with that of St. Paul and with that of Christ in the Garden. Some misunderstandings and false reports as to Luther’s having himself condemned his own life-work _pages_ 356-375

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