| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: righteousness that they will need nothing else for
justification." Thus, too, Paul says, "For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness" (Rom. x. 10).
But you ask how it can be the fact that faith alone justifies,
and affords without works so great a treasure of good things,
when so many works, ceremonies, and laws are prescribed to us in
the Scriptures? I answer, Before all things bear in mind what I
have said: that faith alone without works justifies, sets free,
and saves, as I shall show more clearly below.
Meanwhile it is to be noted that the whole Scripture of God is
divided into two parts: precepts and promises. The precepts
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: How meritoire is thilke dede
Of charite, to clothe and fede
The povere folk and forto parte
The worldes good, bot thei departe
Ne thenken noght fro that thei have.
Also thei sein, good is to save 470
With penance and with abstinence
Of chastite the continence;
Bot pleinly forto speke of that,
I not how thilke body fat,
Which thei with deynte metes kepe
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: thousand armed men?'
'He whom you help,' said Jason, flattering her, 'for your
fame is spread over all the earth. Are you not the queen of
all enchantresses, wiser even than your sister Circe, in her
fairy island in the West?'
'Would that I were with my sister Circe in her fairy island
in the West, far away from sore temptation and thoughts which
tear the heart! But if it must be so - for why should you
die? - I have an ointment here; I made it from the magic ice-
flower which sprang from Prometheus' wound, above the clouds
on Caucasus, in the dreary fields of snow. Anoint yourself
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