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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: repentance and grace are to come. For repentance comes from the
law of God, but faith or grace from the promises of God, as it is
said, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"
(Rom. x. 17), whence it comes that a man, when humbled and
brought to the knowledge of himself by the threatenings and
terrors of the law, is consoled and raised up by faith in the
Divine promise. Thus "weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning" (Psalm xxx. 5). Thus much we say
concerning works in general, and also concerning those which the
Christian practises with regard to his own body.
Lastly, we will speak also of those works which he performs
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