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The Reformation · 1522
Preface to the Epistle to the Romans
Martin Luther · 1483–1546
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What it is
A short introduction defining faith as a living, busy, active thing that cannot help doing good works, and asking the reader not to confuse it with mere assent.
Why it lasted
Read aloud at a meeting in Aldersgate Street in 1738, it produced the experience that launched the Methodist revival.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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