Luther's Galatians

Alec Satin developed the public domain (shorter version). We debated the longer version, which I also love. However, it is better to have people read the shorter version than having them think about one day reading the longer one.

I read the longer version verbatim (in Olde English) to Mrs. Ichabod some years ago.

However, I have to say, the eructations of the Objective Justification savants have been my Harvard and Yale College, teaching me to know their dogma better than they know themselves.

I will send a finished copy to the cub editor of Christian News, so he can assign a review to someone suitably addled from reading the omnia opera of the Objective Justification salesmen.

But what if CN is silent?

Book of Concord, Formula of Concord, Article III, The Righteousness of Faith

"6] This article concerning justification by faith (as the Apology says) is the chief article in the entire Christian doctrine, without which no poor conscience can have any firm consolation, or can truly know the riches of the grace of Christ, as Dr. Luther also has written: If this only article remains pure on the battlefield, the Christian Church also remains pure, and in goodly harmony and without any sects; but if it does not remain pure, it is not possible that any error or fanatical spirit can be resisted. (Tom. 5, Jena, p. 159.)

7] And concerning this article especially Paul says that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Therefore, in this article he urges with so much zeal and earnestness the particulas exclusivas, that is, the words whereby the works of men are excluded (namely, without Law, without works, by grace [freely], Rom. 3:28; 4:5; Eph. 2:8-9), in order to indicate how highly necessary it is that in this article, aside from [the presentation of] the pure doctrine, the antithesis, that is, all contrary dogmas, be stated separately, exposed, and rejected by this means."

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