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Works of Martin Luther with Introductions and Notes, Volume I is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume one contains selections from two of Martin Luther’s prefaces to his works, the editor’s explanation of the background and history of each treatise, and the English translation itself. In these writings, Luther expounds on a variety of topics, including his famous 95 Theses. Other topics include his treatise on good works—which contains his transformational idea of justification by faith...

my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope1 and the books of the sophists. I look now and then to see what they have done, or learn from them the history and thought of their time, but I do not study them, or feel myself bound to conform to them. I do not treat the Fathers and the Councils very differently. In this I follow the example of St. Augustine, who is one of the first, and almost the
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