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The Reformation · c. 1516–1546
The Letters of Spiritual Counsel
Martin Luther · 1483–1546
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What it is
Letters to the bereaved, the anxious, the dying, and the suicidal, including several to people in the despair he called Anfechtung and knew himself.
Why it lasted
Luther as pastor rather than polemicist, and the best evidence that his theology was worked out on people rather than at them.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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