“Now the Pope, with all his bishops, his schools and whole synagogue, taught that his laws are necessary to salvation: therefore he was a teacher of weak and beggarly elements … he burdened and miserably tormented the Church with his wicked laws, defacing Christ and burying his Gospel. Therefore if thou wilt observe the laws of the Pope without offence of conscience, see to it thou keep them without the opinion of righteousness; for righteousness is given through Christ alone.”
—Martin Luther
