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This is the initial volume in the new American Edition of Luther’s Works—56 volumes in all—in modern English—the largest and most authentic English edition available anywhere. It brings to the English reading public for the first time Dr. Martin Luther’s most important writings. Ministers, theological students, and searching laypeople now have the opportunity to study and read extensively, and...

and subject to eternal death. There is, second, a kind of sin which a man who has the Law can recognize when such things as theft, murder, and adultery are committed. Even the civil laws talk about this latter kind, though not very precisely. The scholastic statement that “the natural powers are unimpaired” is a horrible blasphemy, though it is even more horrible when they say the same about demons.3 If the natural powers are unimpaired, what need is there of Christ? If by nature man has good will;
Volume 12, Pages 308–309