“Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should never have foreseen or once suspected, he has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.”
- Martin Luther
Some quotes make Luther seem duplicitous or not to smart. That he couldn’t foresee “a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ” is pretty shabby. Anti-nominalism was rife in his day in Germany, and he said much to fan its flames.