Where this mercy is not, there is also no faith. For if your heart is in the state of faith that you know your God has revealed himself to you to be so good and merciful, without thy merit, and purely gratuitously, while you were still his enemy and a child of eternal wrath; ifContinue reading “Where this mercy is not, there is also no faith.”
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Dr. Luther on the Purpose of the Decalogue
The cause and need of this commandment is that God well knows that the world is evil, and that this life has much unhappiness; therefore He has placed this and the other commandments between the good and the evil. Now, as there are many assaults upon all commandments, so it happens also in this commandmentContinue reading “Dr. Luther on the Purpose of the Decalogue”
Nothing but Forgiveness of Sin
Everything, therefore, in the Christian Church is ordered to the end that we shall daily obtain there nothing but the forgiveness of sin through the Word and signs, to comfort and encourage our consciences as long as we live here. Thus, although we have sins, the grace of the Holy Ghost does not allow themContinue reading “Nothing but Forgiveness of Sin”
Locus Communis 