MARTIN LUTHER***


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                        CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY

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                           SELECTIONS FROM THE
                                TABLE TALK
                                    OF
                              MARTIN LUTHER.


                              TRANSLATED BY
                           CAPTAIN HENRY BELL.

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                       CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
                _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_.
                                  1886.

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INTRODUCTION.


MARTIN LUTHER died on the 18th of February, 1546, and the first
publication of his “Table Talk”—_Tischreden_—by his friend, Johann
Goldschmid (Aurifaber), was in 1566, in a substantial folio.  The talk of
Luther was arranged, according to its topics, into eighty chapters, each
with a minute index of contents.  The whole work in a complete octavo
edition, published at Stuttgart and Leipzig in