The Church-postils and Home-postils; advantages and shortcomings of his popular works; his silence regarding self-denial.
The Postils were amply sufficient for the Christian people.
The Psalter and thePostils were widely known and both played a great part in the religious life of the Middle Ages.
We still have no fewer than 103 printed German editions of the Postils (often known as Plenaries) dating from the above period.
Moreover, the sermons of the Postils were revised afresh in order to furnish reading matter for the people and to help the preachers.
Hence in his Church-postils, home-postils and Catechism, to mention only these, he gives full vent to his opinions on the hostility and might of Satan.
Of the Church-Postils the first half of the winter part up to the Epiphany had been published by Luther as early as 1522, and then continued down to Easter.
Luther, in 1527, spoke of his Church-Postils as the “best book I ever wrote .
The Postils was the collection of lessons from both Old and New Testaments, prescribed to be read on the Sundays.
In his Church-postils Luther spoke of the “Pope-Ass” with an earnestness calculated to make a profound impression upon the susceptible.
Luther gratefully acknowledges the help he got in his Bible translation from the postils of Lyra.
In those days Postils enjoyed a wider circulation than any other popular works.
What particularly incensed Luther was the use this preacher made of his Postils to refute him by his own words.
Also at Goettingen, Veit Pflugmacher vowed, in 1541, that he would preach the Gospel in its truth and purity according to the Augsburg Confession and the contents of the postils of Anton Corvinus.
Defn: A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.
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