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This volume contains a selection of Luther’s preaching between May 1531 and June 1539. In the first few years after the decisive Diet of Augsburg (1530) and the presentation of the Augsburg Confession, Luther grappled with how best to teach the doctrine of justification. Sermons dealing with Christian righteousness and the proper distinction of Law and Gospel show how Luther was gradually...

Christ—we do not want to carry on any disputation about us, what we have or have not done or [what we] should still do or avoid, but rather about what the foundation of our faith should be. Completely apart from ourselves, we should only enter this article and learn what the Man has done for us. Let us now look at this in order. These words are conceived well and in an orderly fashion and almost [serve] as a calendar throughout the whole year, in which we celebrate all the feasts of the Lord Christ.
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