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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...

some new demand above and beyond the Law. For if the Law can be fulfilled by our powers, as they say, then grace is not necessary for the fulfilling of the Law, but only for the fulfilling of some new exaction imposed by God above the Law. Who can endure these sacrilegious notions? When the apostle says that “the Law works wrath” (v. 15) and that the Law “was weakened by the flesh” (Rom. 8:3), it certainly cannot be fulfilled without grace. They could have been made aware of their own foolishness
Volume 25, Pages 262–263
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