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When Luther was prevailed upon to write a preface to the projected complete edition of his Latin writings in 1545, about a year before his death, he took the opportunity to review the high points of his career—to show that he really never had the time and talent to produce literature worth preserving, that in publishing these works he was now merely yielding to his friends’ argument that his...

CHAPTER SIX Summary: The apostle declares that we must not continue in our sins but must do what is good. 1. What shall we say then? if grace abounds because sin has abounded. Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?1 as falsifiers understand the passage, when they say, “Let us do evil,” that is, let us commit sin, “That good may come” (Rom. 3:8), that is, that grace may abound. 2. By no means, because this idea is absolutely contrary to the work of grace, for we who died to sin,2 by a
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