Galatians 1:6A—I Marvel That So Soon.
To fall in faith is an easy matter. Paul warns Christians in another place that he who stands should take heed that he fall not (1 Corinthians 10:12).
We also daily prove by experience with what great difficulty a perfect people is gotten to the Lord. A man may labor half a score years before he shall get some little church to be rightly and religiously ordered; and when it is so ordered, there creeps in some mad brain, yea and a very unlearned idiot, who can do nothing else but speak slanderously and spitefully against sincere preachers of the Word, and he in one moment overthrows all.
We by the grace of God have gotten here at Wittenberg
Seeing then that the Church is so soft and so tender a thing, and is so soon overthrown, men must watch carefully against these fantastical spirits who, when they have heard two sermons, or have read a few leaves in the Holy Scriptures, make themselves masters and controllers of all learners and teachers, contrary to the authority of all men. Many such you may find among craftsmen, bold fellows, who, because they have been tried by no temptations, never learned to fear God nor had any taste or feeling of grace. These teach whatever they like best, and such things as are plausible and pleasant to the common people. Then the unskillful multitude, longing to hear news, join themselves unto them. Yea, and many are seduced by them.
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