The Book of the Concord of the Koran or Law of Muhammad and the Evangelists

of discipline, whose care among us they call pimping, and they mix peace with everyone. The heretical women themselves, how impudent they are, who dare to teach, to contend, to perform exorcisms, to promise cures, and perhaps even to baptize? Their ordinations are reckless, for they enjoin priestly duties upon laymen. What shall I say about the administration of the Word? Since this is their business, not to convert the Gentiles, but to overturn our own. Furthermore, they do not know reverence for the magistrates. Finally, when all heresies are thoroughly inspected, they are caught disagreeing with their authors in many things. Therefore, all things are free and loose for them. It is a wonder how perfectly these things, written nearly one thousand four hundred years ago, square in every respect with this faction. He seems to have been present at the event. While the holy church discerns leprosy from leprosy, and sheep from goats, the faithful from the excommunicated, public sinners from the pious, and admits the former to penance and the latter to the sacraments, there is no difference among the heretics, provided that someone says he has faith. They approach to receive communion from the furnace and the tavern just as they do from prayer: for those who have no orders are accustomed to have no distinction. Furthermore, the Geneuangelista Empty-gospeller says that penance as it is commonly practiced by the church, by lamentation, weeping, fasting, alms, and satisfaction, is a simplicity and a bugbear of the conscience, and a superfluous work. Whether they are pious or impious, as long as they swear to the words of the dogma, they hold them the same, since the spiritual church judges all things. While holy orders in the church are conferred upon men who are not just anyone but are suitable, boys and women in Germany, by the opinion of Luther Martin Luther and many others, can baptize, absolve, and sacramentum sacrament