Chapter XXXII: A LIFE FULL OF STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE pages 319-375

1. ON LUTHER’S “TEMPTATIONS” IN GENERAL.

Some characteristic statements concerning his “combats
and temptations” _pages_ 319-321

2. THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE “TEMPTATIONS.”

“Supposing you had to answer for all the souls that
perish!” “If you do not penance shall you not likewise
perish?” “See how much evil arises from your
doctrine!” _pages_ 321-326

3. AN EPISODE. TERRORS OF CONSCIENCE BECOME TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL.

Schlaginhaufen falls into a faint at Luther’s house.
Luther persuades himself that his remorse of conscience
comes from the devil _pages_ 326-330

4. PROGRESS OF HIS MENTAL SUFFERINGS UNTIL THEIR FLOOD-TIDE IN
1527-1528.

“What labour did it not cost me ... to denounce the
Pope as Antichrist.” The height of the storm; “tossed
about between death and hell”; “I seek only for a
gracious God.” Luther pens his famous hymn, “A safe
stronghold our God is still”; the hymn an echo of his
struggles _pages_ 330-345

5. THE TEN YEARS FROM 1528-1538. HOW TO WIN BACK PEACE OF CONSCIENCE.

At the Coburg. “I should have died without a struggle.”
The waning of the “struggles by day and by night”;
thoughts of suicide; how to reach peace _pages_ 346-356

6. LUTHER ON HIS FAITH, HIS DOCTRINE, AND HIS DOUBTS, PARTICULARLY IN
HIS LATER YEARS.

His notion of faith, (_a_) the accepting as true, (_b_)
the believing trust. His picture of himself and his
difficulties in late years; he compares his case with
that of St. Paul and with that of Christ in the Garden.
Some misunderstandings and false reports as to Luther’s
having himself condemned his own life-work _pages_ 356-375