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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians
A commentary of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galatians first collected and gathered word by word out of his preaching, and now out of Latin faithfully translated into English for the unlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...A commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians first collected and gathered vvord by vvord out of his preaching, and novv out of Latine faithfully translated into English for the vnlearned. Wherein is set forth most excellently the glorious riches of Gods grace ...
London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling wihtin sic, 1575London: printed by Thomas Vautroullier dvvelling vvihtin sic, 1575
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Therefore, where sins are seen and felt, there are they in deed no sins. For according to Pauls Divinity, there is no sin, no death, no malediction any more in the world, but in Christ, who is the Lamb of God that hath taken away the sins of the world: who is made a Curse that he might deliver us from the Curse. Contrariwise, according to Philosophy and reason, sin, death, and the Curse, are no where else but in the world, in the flesh, or in sinners. For, a Sophistical Divine can speak no otherwise of sin,1 then doth the Heathen Philosopher. Like as (sayeth he) the colour sticketh in the wall, even so doth sin in the world, in the flesh, or in the conscience: therefore it is to be purged by contrary operations, to wit, by charity. But true Divinity teacheth that there is no sin in the world any more: for Christ upon ⟨p. 134⟩whom the Father hath cast the sins of the whole world, hath vanquished and killed the same in his own body.2 He once dying for sin and raised up again, dieth now no more. Therefore wheresoever is a true faith in Christ, there sin is abolished, dead, and buried in deed. But where no Faith in Christ is, there sin doth still remain.3 And albeit the remnants of sin be as yet in the Saints because they believe not perfectly, yet are they dead in that they are not imputed unto them because of their Faith in Christ.
Therfore, where sinnes are seene and felt, there are they in deede no sinnes. For according to Paules Diuinitie, there is no sin, no death, no maledictiō any more in the world, but in Christ, who is the Lambe of God yt hath taken away ye sinnes of the world: who is made a Curse that he might deliuer vs from the Curse. Contrariwise, according to Philosophie and reason, sinne, death, and the Curse, are no where else but in the world, in the flesh, or in sinners. For, a Sophisticall Diuine can speake no otherwise of sinne,1 then doth the Heathen Philosopher. Like as (sayeth he) the colour sticketh in the wall, euen so doth sinne in the world, in the flesh, or in the conscience: therfore it is to be purged by contrary operations, to witte, by charitie. But true Diuinitie teacheth that there is no sinne in the world any more: for Christ vpon