A Treatise on Good Works is a religious classic by Dr. Martin Luther. The Occasion of the Work. -- Luther did not impose himself as reformer upon the Church. In the course of a conscientious performance of the duties of his office, to which he had been regularly and divinely called, and without any urging on his part, he attained to this position by inward necessity. In 1515 he received his appointment as the standing substitute for the sickly city pastor, Simon Heinse, from the city council of Wittenberg.

Libro que puede servir de ejemplo para ilustrar las ultimas polemicas que sostuvo el Dr. Lutero, en este caso contra un destacado principe del bando catolico en Alemania, el duque Enrique el Joven, de Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel. La guerra de panfletos entre este principe catolico y los dos lideres de la Liga de Esmalcalda, el principe-elector Juan Federico de Sajonia y el landgrave Felipe de Hesse, habia comenzado en la primavera de 1538 por motivos politicos y territoriales. Lutero, que al principio se habia mantenido al margen de esta polemica, no tuvo mas remedio de entrar en ella cuando el...