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I must go back you're a wanted man and

looking for you all over Germany then

they'll find me Martin Luther hunka the

Augustinian order notorious heretic

child of Satan shall not be nourished by

food or drink shall not be assisted by

word or deed wherever he may be meant

shall be taken prisoner and delivered up

in close custody to the punishments that

have been provided

now they call me a notorious heretic a

child of Satan

when I was a child the traveling players

came every spring with the tales of

heaven and hell

I knew that the human soul was weak and

sinful and that I was weak

the devil rejoiced my weakness I knew

that all my sins will be counted and

weighed against me and that the Lord God

judge of all mankind must deliver the

unworthy to the fires of hell is that

any hay bales

it a maledicte e in ignominy

of evil in the world there is a day of

judgment I am what I am today because I

have lived my life in terror of that

judgment once I was a monk now I'm a

heretic

nothing has changed except that I've

travelled further down the same Road

encounter sings alloy - she'll survive i

wait for the lord hath my soul dissuaded

and in his word the way over i wait for

the lord of water walking awake for the

morning i entered the monastery seeking

the mercy of the lord hoping to find

refuge from the powers of evil I did my

duty as a month I prayed and fasted I

confessed my sins and performed my

penances not for a single day did I find

peace what if I fast it was I'm not

proud of it what if I praise God could

God not smell my fear this fear itself

made me doubt the goodness of God and so

I became even more afraid my son's

waited for the Lord will watch my weight

from the warning that Israel

with the both there is mercy it seemed

to me that I and all mankind were locked

in a prison of our own weakness and that

other men were blessedly blind and that

I alone was condemned to see you want to

be like a baby before it leaves the womb

there was only one man who understood me

in those days my father superior

John Starr pits you don't want to have

anything to do about the world wet dirt

all that knowledge but it can't be done

there's no way back I'm told you were in

the confessional yesterday evening for

six hours yes one started doesn't that

strike you as greedy if I commit a sin

father I must confess it six hours so

are you now free from sin no first

habits

father if I'm wrong I'm ready to be

corrected father can any man ever be

free from sin and how am I to escape

escape you're nothing prison not in

prison you don't think so the walls all

around me father I can feel them right

can I be free from sin no is there a day

of judgment yes

it's God indifferent to sin no must I be

damned

yes is it there are four walls there's

no way out let Israel hope in the Lord

but with the Lord there is mercy

oh it's God merciful if God's merciful

let there be no judgment but there'll be

no damnation and no hell let's let's all

go to heaven and live with the Angels

you feel abandoned you feel powerless

you're filled with anger you hate God

you think you're the first man who ever

doubted the goodness of God tell me what

to do father eat more food get more

sleep

learn more about God if I'm free now

it's because John stop had set me on the

road to freedom he wanted me to learn

more about God so wise man that he was

he turned me into a teacher I was still

a young monk when he made me a lecturer

in theology and sent me to Wittenberg

but is our wooden building courtesy of

his imperial highness are pictured your

critical Saxony keep our keep ah ah

keep up this is dr. Luther our new

professor of the University Wittenberg

was famous then for its holy relics

astonishing claims were made for these

relics that certain prayers here certain

payments could relieve a man's soul of

its burden of sin and so reduce the

punishments of the next life

the reassuring doctrine of indulgences

one of the forms you see from the crown

of thorns a wisp of straw from the

manger where the infant Jesus lay a

feather from a wing of the angel Gabriel

or no country me Reverend one of the

largest collections of relics outside

world

his Highness is the political years a

strand from the beard of our Lord Jesus

Christ

do you believe me Dean do I believe what

dr. Luther obeys the reduction of the

punishments of purgatory yes I see what

you're asking the essence of the

doctrine of indulgences is the concept

of time in purgatory what do we mean

when we speak of time in purgatory does

the soul experience time after death no

no no no I shall have it just give me a

moment to think

I suggest you believe in the revenue at

least dr. Luther the relics finance the

university you mean I shouldn't bite the

hand that feeds me at least don't bite

it off yes the argument goes along these

Minds caused by his second

he must find a store Med I should say of

surplus method

the church has charge of this store and

they distributed as it thinks best a

sort of ladder of grace you'll see the

indulgences are the method of

distributing this surplus grace as you

add grace so you reduce sinfulness even

if the grace is undeserved there is

repentance

that is an addition to all indulgences

so do you believe it I mean you andreas

Karlstadt I'm the theologian you asked

me a theological question you'll get a

theological answer do you believe it dr.

Luther ah who are you asking dr. Luther

the newly appointed professor of

biblical studies or Martin Luther the

monk who would save his soul from

damnation if only he knew how is there a

difference no when it comes to

everlasting punishment the professor

agrees with a month we don't like

everlasting punishment do I believe it

if I thought that this was the way out

I'd go down on my knees and say Hail

Marys till i rot it not forgetting the

appropriate contribution which is after

all only the outward sign of true

repentance but just what is true

repentance

as I studied this was the question to

which I kept returning what is true

repentance how can I be sorry for sin

when I never stopped sinning as I chased

words through the Bible I began to make

discoveries this was how slowly at first

light began to break into my prison

through a window of words repent what

does that actually mean look in your

Bibles come on look look here see what

do you find for an attention a get a yes

you see it a get a as in agitate act do

the literal translation of the Latin is

do penance now I've been studying the

Greek the original language of the New

Testament believe me this isn't just a

game with words in the Greek for repent

we have the word Metanoia T which means

literally change mind or in Latin do

penance in Greek change mind this it the

dueling is all in the Latin no where in

the Greek but the Greek came first the

Greek is closer to what Jesus meant is

to understand you see when he said

repent he wasn't asking for works of

repentance you know deeds rituals no all

he wanted was a simple inward change of

heart

repentance heart not hands you can

understand that can't you

yes sir good good so this is the new

learning bit doctor no Dean this is the

old learning

original earnings in poor you suggest

that works of repentance are necessary

this isn't a new idea I'm not heard of

it I don't say works of repentance

aren't necessary maybe they aren't I

don't know yet all I know is that

repentance doesn't lie in the works it's

not what you do that counts these people

think Dean you could pray all day before

the Dukes relics and then go home and

murder your housekeeper if your heart is

full of hatred what does it matter how

long we spend on your knees you can't

fool God that's all very well you can't

fool God quite sure but then you see

there must be something we can do about

our sins of tailings but you say what we

do doesn't so are we all to burn in hell

is that the new learning it doesn't seem

quite fair maybe God isn't fair no I

can't accept this I smell fatalism is

nothing to be done it will do we're all

weak we need to know the some value in

trying to be better than we are

yes we have to try try if you're a

magistrate would you let a thief go

unpunished because he tried not to be a

thief oh you admit you stole this pig

but you tell you tried all morning to

stop yourself stealing it so off you go

and next time try harder over a little

bit then what is one to do works of

repentance aren't enough trying isn't

enough

is anything enough or we just give up I

don't I don't know I don't know that has

to be your way out but to tell you the

truth Dean I haven't found it yet

and I've been willing to spend a Florin

I could have bought my way out there

were indulgence sellers camping all over

Germany offering the people rolls of

paper that promised them a place in

heaven when the famous Dominican friar

John Tetzel came into Saxony he claimed

that he was preaching with the authority

of the Pope himself these remarkable

indulgences apparently even had the

power to reach beyond the grave my

children oh my poor children there is

less time than any of you know now even

as I speak to you

death is creeping near even as this

young man is kissing his maid his breath

is taking on the stale odour of the

grave mother your children will be taken

away from you no matter how tightly they

cling to your skirts death will rip them

away old man this sleep may be your last

are you ready to die are you ready to

meet your maker don't you trouble to

think of that terrible day but you will

stand before God and He will pass

judgment on your miserable life

I have here a paper ball signed by Pope

Leo himself The Vicar of Christ upon

earth

this ball authorizes me to offer you the

Christian faithful these letters of

indulgence each and every letter of

indulgence promises a full pardon for

all the sins you have committed from the

day you were born

to--there's very mad the money you pay

will go towards the building of the

largest church in the world some Peter's

Basilica in Rome y know in Germany are

the holy remains of xanpe they in

Germany would you be able to stride to

some pita we know some pita we've got

sakes in Germany my children how many of

you have loved ones recently gone to

their reward have you reason to believe

that they may be delayed in enjoying

that reward by their sins in purgatory

these letters of indulgences may be

purchased also on their behalf you can

release them I pray that when you are

dead there will be others who will do as

much for your immortal soul or remember

soulful baggage a space soul from

purgatory Springs

I've never despised the people who buy

indulgences the same as me they want to

escape from this prison they want to be

free from sin but I couldn't believe

that God's forgiveness was to be

purchased like a sack of potatoes I've

heard people ask when did the heresy

take possession of Martin Luther some

say the devil lay with my mother and

that I was born a heretical baby the

answer is the heresy began as my

imprisonment ended one long night in

Wittenberg man is sinful I am sinful sin

man is powerless I am powerless

powerlessness all men come to judgment I

shall come to judgment the inescapable

judgment of God judgment

must I be damned

then it came into my mind how can I be

other than powerless oh my god am i a

saber of souls father into your hands

I'd live my life like a willful child

clinging demanding frightened st. Paul

says the just shall live by faith

that night I understood that night I

abandoned my struggle and gave my life

to my Lord Jesus Christ for so long I'd

been afraid of falling that night I fell

into the hands of the Living God yes

man can do nothing about his syphilis

yes God is to do everything yes then I

may do as I please I can sit as much as

I want it makes no difference yes you

may do as you please now tell me what

pleases you a princess no imagine it

no no laws no more punishments what do

you do drink yourself senseless make

faces at the Duke spend the rest of the

week in a whorehouse

sir I don't understand what you say to

me you may do as you please I say to you

what you do comes from what you are what

you are in your heart doctor we are

taught to do good works if we tree that

brings not forth good fruit is hewn down

and cast into the fire with or by their

fruit you shall know them or is it the

apples that makes the apple tree I

thought it was the apple tree that made

the apples a good tree cannot bring

forth evil fruit this is the line before

the one you gave me if you're a good man

you'll do good words not to prove

anything not to gain anything just

because that's how you are how you are

in your heart then what does it take to

be a good man faith sir every peasant in

Germany has faith so will heaven be

filled with German peasants might be

can't be that easy

you think faith is easy

by the tensile if I buy a letter of

indulgence for the sole inheritor must I

go to confession myself the fourth

principle race to ensure affair depends

upon the love in which the departed died

and the contribution which the living

pay the stake oh so is that rentable if

any man deserves the credit for my fame

or my notoriety it's the preacher of

indulgences John Tetzel everything that

I had now come to see to be true was

being contradicted by this donkey from

Rome with his counterfeit eternities we

must all keep the promises that we pay

to go no sister is I have to say it

retrieving me dad when I learned what

dangerous lies he was feeding to the

people how could I not challenge him

there is no divine authority for

preaching that the soul flies out of

purgatory as soon as the money clinks in

the collection box the Pope has neither

the power nor the will to remit any

penalties beyond those he has imposed

either at his own discretion or by canon

law

Christian should be taught that the Pope

has more need and more desire for devout

prayer on his own behalf

than for ready money why does not the

Pope empty purgatory for the sake of

most holy love if he can redeem

innumerable souls for sordid money why

does the Pope not build this Basilica of

Saint Peter with his own money rather

than with that of the faithful poor I

have here an indulgence I by Pope Leo

himself

Novica Christ the heart this indulgence

will give you pardon for all the sins

you have committed from the day you were

born this very minute or remember

when the coin comes I wrote my

propositions in the heat of the moment

never guessing that I was giving words

to what was in the hearts of the people

arguments intended for debate in the

Universities were taken up and spread

all over the country and I was

proclaimed a hero of the German people

the truth was they knew little and cared

less about me but they hated wrong

Marty Marty Martin suddenly everyone

seems to know your name you pull the

holy father by the nose I meant no

disrespect to his holiness father well

what exactly did you mean

well my propositions are for a

theological debate I didn't know all

this was going to happen

the Dominicans say your proposition was

containment area which Dominicans Tetzel

the University of Leipzig was issued a

formal challenge the University of

Wittenberg you are called upon to defend

your propositions in full public dispute

now if that's what you wanted you God I

wish to speak against me Johann Eck

but even your Hannah could make a

respectable case for indulgences oh well

did they did dull Tutsis with you heart

and he knows that Texel was preaching

with the papal commission he'll try to

prove but you have questioned the

authority of the Pope and that as you

know is hazy at that time I was an

obedient monk and a doctor of the church

and no friend to heresy but I couldn't

believe that the Pope had the power to

sell God's forgiveness

so I said about studying the texts on

which the powers of the papacy rested

and the ways in which the Pope's had

used those powers in my innocence I

believe that the object of university

debate was the pursuit of truth however

I hadn't reckoned with dr. Johann Eck

is not the head of the Holy Catholic and

universal Church Christ alone as the

head of the church

and all the Christians together form the

body of that church now those words were

written 100 years ago by the Bohemian

priest and professor yang HUS his

imperial Highness troop Jorge will

recall that the Council of Constance

condemned young us as a false teacher a

heretic he was burned at the stake where

the gospel is preached and believed

there is the true faith there is the

immovable rock there is the church more

of the teachings of the heretic an HUS

know these words were written by dr.

Martin Luther now does dr. Luther

believed or does he not believe that the

Pope is the divinely appointed head of

the church the Pope is the human head of

the church Christ is the divine head and

is the Pope the victor of class on earth

to be abated to what a Bey Christ this

what Victor comes from the Latin

beccaria switch means substitute one who

stands in for another the Pope as Vicar

of Christ is therefore the earthly

substitute for Christ we're not in the

classroom now just dr. Luther obey the

Pope Pope is human he's not above Aaron

how does dr. Luther know error by

reference to the Scriptures the Word of

God the Scriptures dr. Luther has read

the scriptures so - of course as the

Pope

the interpretation of the scripture is a

task to be undertaken by the whole body

of the church by all believing

Christians by all believing Christians

and to all believing Christians agree

with what our never in a thousand years

that is why the church in her was the

more days that ultimate authority rests

with the Pope but we've still not been

able to establish whether dr. Luther

considers himself to be bound by that

authority if what the Pope teaches is in

agreement with the Word of God then yes

I consider myself bound by it and if

what the Pope teaches is not in dr.

Luther's opinion in agreement with the

Word of God

I am a Christian theologian and I'm

bound to defend the truth as I see it

however ignorant I may be but what I

believe I believe freely not under

obedience to the Pope

what sort of belief would that be when a

big dog barks all the little dog said to

yapping is that belief the Pope may

speak truth but it's not truth because

the Pope speaks it the declarations of

the Pope are not in themselves the words

of God therefore I cannot consider

myself bound in conscience by such

declarations

thank you dr. Lutzer your Imperial

Highness Johan has chosen to be my enemy

since that day but I have this to thank

him for he made me see that there are

times when heresy is the only truth when

the disputed heed asked the students of

Leipzig who won the dispute Eck won the

dispute what did you say Eck was right

it was right about what he said I was a

follower of young horse so I am I

believe in all of the teachings of yon

hers only I didn't know it Haase was

burned at the stake

yeah what should we do do I don't know

what related to you won't let the matter

lie the charge of heresy traveled ahead

of me to my patron Duke Frederick my

lord Duke took the view that theology is

another form of political intrigue he

protected me not because I was right but

because I represented his own Wittenberg

against Leipzig and Duke George and

Johann egg

and cousin George appears to have

reached a conclusion that our dr. Luther

is guilty of heresy

now remember George saying to me once

the theology muddled him I do hope he

hasn't been muddled because Imperial

Highness chook George is in no doubt on

the matter highness he heard the heresy

with his own most gracious ears your

highness will recall the opinion of his

grace Cardinal kya town the dr. Luther

has been guilty of some errors but not

of heresy errors I should think so

nobody's perfect not even dr. Eck Hey

don't read the man's mama Haas was

husband fellows now dr. Eck that is a

most serious charge if you wish to lay

such a charge against dr. Luther then

you must present your case without delay

to dr. Luther's academic superior the

Dean of theological studies at

Wittenberg who is who is dr. Andrews

custard oh just so Dean constat am I to

understand that your highness is

reluctant to act in this matter

reluctant to act of course oshel and I

shall ask for a full report from the

Faculty of theology I myself being

Labor's would of course not presume to

say who is right and who is wrong we

shall see what they say and wrong wrong

you're going to Rome it is my duty

highness this affair has only just

become highness

Oh dr. Eck I am like you and indeed like

your peloton here a devoted son of our

Holy Mother the church you may carry

that assurance with you if George thinks

he can tell me what to do in my own

University he can think again

splatting I want to look after you

understand let him teach and finish as

he wants you understand these were

uncertain times the old Emperor was dead

the new emperor not yet elected God all

over the German states there were armed

factions some for Rome some against Rome

even my life was said to be in danger

Martin Luther my master can't all read

from Hooton greets you in the name of

journey the parasites of Rome have drunk

our blood and chewed on our flesh to

arms Germany to our Dean what is this

the fighting men of Germany my master

controller from Hooton commands an army

dedicated to the liberation of the

German people Martin Luther the voice of

Germany has only to say the word and the

swords of Germany will be drawn who are

we to attack the usurers and prostitute

funders of Roma seek to destroy you

you please thank your master for the

honor he does me but I find I'm safe

enough in Wittenberg for the month

the time for silence is over and the

time to speak has come for under the

shameless and impious regime of Rome

that devil is growing fat more than 300

thousand guilders go every year from

Germany to Rome and how do the Roman

wolves justify this plunder we are

Christ's agents they say the Shepherd's

of Christ's sheep the stupid drunken

Germans must put up with it

Rome is not the church we're all

Christians alike the Pope is no more

Christian than any one of you baptism

gospel faith these alone make a

Christian people and Christian people

make the church we're all free those who

today call themselves

Pope's bishops priests are in the

scriptures called ministers stewards

servants their task is to serve the rest

what I say is left each congregation

elect the citizen and charge him with

the duty of minister let that Minister

marry gone as he pleases

but nothing in the scriptures to say a

minister should marry may God now help

us and give us one of those trumpets

with which the walls of Jericho were

overthrown so that we can blow away

these Roman walls of straw and paper and

bring the devil's de seeds into the

light of day and said Christendom free

god no longer led me then he dragged me

pushed me jostled me whatever I learned

I preached whatever I preached I printed

so that where at first there was one

voice there came to be a thousand Rome

quivered like a dead tree and all the

spiders and wood lice came running out

to spit at me

empower to declare the throw the

authority given him by God His Holiness

Leo the tenth on this day June the 15th

in the seventh year of his pontificate

wishes to issue and make known this bow

our eyes our Lord champion your cause

against this wild boar luther who

tramples your vineyard arise O Lord let

heresy be expelled from the confines of

our Holy Mother the church

in the name of the holy roman church the

mother of all churches the mistress of a

faith we can no longer suffer the scabby

sheep luther to infect the flock devil

Canon Law vol 1

Rome's lies Canon lawful you too Rome's

dribblings Grayson's decretum Grecians

excreta the papal bull legs as a domine

by this ball I stand condemned by Rome

I say Rome is condemned by God Luther's

teaching makes for rebellion division

war murder robbery arson and the

collapse of the Sodom he lives the life

of a beast that's the 3rd from wrong

this month

none of this is true highness what's

that got to do with it does Luther think

this is all about the truth I believe so

- then you must Martin Luther for me how

he thinks he stayed unharmed up to now

all you ask his Highness from me as he

really believed that matters have gone

miss fraud and Wittenberg become a talk

of Europe and Rome trembling like a sick

cow because he has protected me well

it's flattened how can I help you

I'm supposed to be helping you or harm

you help me

this isn't theology this is politics

politics you say so

are you Emperor Charles is due to meet

the heads of the German states at worms

early in the new year there'll be a

delegation from Rome petitioning the

Emperor to enforce the Pope's ban

against you

we think he's unlikely to meet that

demand without giving you a hearing and

our politics is the Emperor likely to

hear we think that Rome would consider a

compromise if you would so much national

feeling mix up in this what sort of

compromise the key seems to be this

question of authority we thought perhaps

you could make a statement affirming

your belief in duly appointed authority

you do believe in Authority don't you

dearly appointed Authority yes I also

happen to believe that that excludes the

entire hierarchy of the Roman Church no

need to go into detail war really useful

political statements are capable of

bearing at least two contradictory

meanings secret is avoid detail what

about the rest of my heretical teachings

no need to mention them at all politics

remember not theology on my speech might

be politics for Latin but my silence

would be pure theology now this business

has gone too far

have you any comprehension of the risk

you're taking yes but you see I've

decided it doesn't matter anymore what

happens to me

every day all the world whenever there

are Christians they speak in same words

in the same language to the same God I

know that father there can only be one

christened 'm there can only be one

church father tell me what you wanted me

I don't want to have to choose what we

knew in the church the choice is between

Christ and the Pope what is it Martin or

is it between Luther's Christ and the

Pope's Christ father can you look with

open eyes at the corrupted Church of

Rome and call it Christmas yes that's

not so difficult

ichael up with open eyes at the

corrupted human race you see in

colleague mankind it's all we've got

what do you want of me Father time is it

going to give

do you remember all those terrible

doubts and now all these terrible

certainties father when I was alone I

thought no one could understand me you

were with me you understood are you with

me now

I don't ask me the chills Martin don't

put your own salvation before the

salvation of Christendom

I can't save you from this choice father

I don't want to you must choose

I can't choose to destroy my church

then I'm alone again chose by the grace

of God holy roman emperor king of

germany king of spain and two sicilies

king of jerusalem hungry dalmatia

croatia Archduke of Austria uses irony

count of habsburg Landers enduro Lord of

Africa Asia Oh Martin Luther

Martin Luther Augustinian these books

have all been published under your name

do you acknowledge before this imperial

assembly but they are your work those

books are online his Imperial Majesty

requires me to ask you do you persist in

the teachings presented in these works

or do you recant those teachings in

whole or in part my Lord Most Serene

Emperor illustrious Prince's I have no

more protection for what I have written

and the Lord Jesus Christ who said at

his interrogation by the high priests if

I have spoken evil testify to the evil

if the Lord Himself who was above error

was willing to listen to testimony

against his own teaching how much more

should I seek to be corrected

therefore I ask your Lordships if you

can convict me of Harry prophets

evangelists

my arguments don't rest upon my life

they rest on the life of Christ you

compare yourself to our Lord Jesus

Christ I am an imitator of Christ

insofar as I'm able

Martin Luther is Imperial Majesty which

is to know if you place your own

judgment above the law of our Holy

Mother of the church I don't claim to be

above error I don't claim to be a saint

if I am shown to be mistaken I'll be the

first to throw my books on the fire his

Imperial Majesty finds that your answers

persist in being ambiguous is therefore

my duty to remind you that the teachings

contained in your books have been judged

a reticle and that for the abominable

crime of heresy due punishments have

been provided Martin Luther I ask you

for the last time do you retract your

writings and the errors they contain

since your Imperial Majesty asks for a

simple answer I will give a simple

answer unless I'm convinced of my error

by the evidence of the Scriptures or by

plain reason I cannot and I will not

retract anything I do not trust either

Pope's or counsels

it's not safe to act against conscience

and my conscience is captive to the Word

of God here I stand so help me God

I had come before the Emperor under a

promise of safe conduct trusting in this

slender protection I set out on the road

back to Wittenberg I knew that once the

imperial condemnation was proclaimed

there would be no more safety for me in

Germany so I resolved to live each day

as if it were my last by this edict

given this day it warns by Charles Holy

Roman Emperor and King of Germany the

heretic Martin Luther formerly of the

Augustinian order shall henceforth be

held in detestation he shall not be

assisted by word or deed wherever he may

be met he shall be taken prisoner and

delivered up in close custody to the

punishments that have been provided

Martin Luther

so you're Martin Luther is quite quite

true grape is left on the stalk - right

in the sunshine before they are pictus

when the wine is laid it has that

amazing edible sweetness it's perfectly

true your highness

Luther has vanished vanished theologians

don't vanish even heretics don't just

vanish the reports are that he's been

kidnapped by bandits on the road to air

for tennis bandits

what would bandits won with Martin

Luther Rowan bandits Maher Luther sake

let's just hope that their plane on his

German bandits my lord and protector

Duke Frederick had me seized so that I

would not be seized had me imprisoned so

that I would not be imprisoned

I was ready to suffer the violence of my

enemies but it was hard to suffer the

kindness of friends all his silence it's

like being a novice again better be bore

than be burned or do you think so I'd

rather burn than rot you want books

I'll get your books yet have all the

books you want Duke Frederick's orders

what are they saying in Saxony I was

saying I've run away some say you've

been seen in Rome where you're being put

to the question the word is you've not

recanted yet but others know for a fact

you've been murdered thrown down a

mineshaft

they're the ones that have got it right

I was ready for death or glory but this

do you know where I am captain where are

people sent to be punished for their own

good for an unknown amount of time

I'm in purgatory

my good people we have declared that is

the Augustinian friars of Wittenberg we

have declared that our monastic vows are

not binding the reform is underway

monks priests nuns all are free to marry

I have grown up though I'm not yet quite

finished 77 propositions challenging

this vow of celibacy moreover since we

must not only preach you know I myself

propose that is Fraulein Anna Boch how

daughter of our esteemed hare maja has

done me the honor in short my friends

enough words now we act amongst marrying

in Wittenberg

I dare say being monks has given them a

fondness for taking vows he taught to

eat a great man must eat you want my

opinion doctor you bring this trouble on

yourself oh I thought it came from God

my own sacred relic my fragment of the

true cross hmm myself I'm told it a

surfeit of sitting down sitting down

buns up the bowels sitting down has it

bun up the spirit - they're not sitting

down in Wittenberg

I was married when I was a younger man

didn't suit the good Lord took her from

me in His infinite mercy for those 10

months I spent in hiding from my enemies

I found myself back in that other prison

from which I thought I had escaped long

ago the prison of my fears the old

doubts returned crowded round me

whispering at me from the shadows why

should you be wiser than the rest what

madness have you unloosed upon the world

I am Martin Luther

Martin Luther is nothing

let him be damned if his to be done

even though who them is damned truth is

true enough

I must go back yet I wanted man they are

looking for you all over Germany then

they'll find me now they call me a

notorious heretic a child of sake but

I'm the same Martin Luther became a monk

to save his soul if I'm to die let me

die in Wittenberg where it all began

I'll stand here before you banned by the

law of the church and condemned by the

law of the Empire but I know now that

there is no castle in all Germany that

can hide me from the summons of death

that is a battle I must fight alone I

don't claim to be any wiser than other

men nor shall I when I stand before my

Maker

all I shall say is I have kept faith

I made Marty my friends but a great work

the Lord has done here in Wittenberg my

friends when I first set foot on this

road I was driven by a dreadful fear of

judgment and a longing from the bottom

of my heart for salvation in those days

it seemed to me that I was alone but now

now I hardly know where I'm to be led or

where the road will end but I know that

God has called me to his work and I know

that I am no longer alone

may God confirming ours what he has

performed here in Wittenberg and

bringing to completion for his glory the

work he has now begun

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