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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.

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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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