at his birth. Not all a believer’s doings call for some special prompting of the Spirit. Even the Biblical saints and heroes generally acted as reason guided: when Abraham received no certain word from heaven, he did as reason dictated. The ‘saints’ are like other men in busying themselves in the common routine tasks—and yet, Luther adds in a significant remark, though they do the same things as the ungodly, their works are made acceptable to God by their faith. Genuine saints do nothing out of the