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    Christ's Benefits and Their Distribution: Romans 4

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    Martin Luther's hymn "Out of the Depths I Cry to You" expresses relying on God's promises and goodness rather than one's own merits. The document also discusses how the Gospel distinguishes faith from works of the law, with faith alone justifying a person according to Paul and the early church fathers. Faith is described as the sole locus of righteousness, with love not needed to complete it. Faith establishes the law by removing works from righteousness before God, allowing the law to witness against itself and stop all boasting.

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    Christ's Benefits and Their Distribution: Romans 4

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    Martin Luther's hymn "Out of the Depths I Cry to You" expresses relying on God's promises and goodness rather than one's own merits. The document also discusses how the Gospel distinguishes faith from works of the law, with faith alone justifying a person according to Paul and the early church fathers. Faith is described as the sole locus of righteousness, with love not needed to complete it. Faith establishes the law by removing works from righteousness before God, allowing the law to witness against itself and stop all boasting.

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    Martin Luther's hymn "Out of the Depths I Cry to You" expresses relying on God's promises and goodness rather than one's own merits. The document also discusses how the Gospel distinguishes faith from works of the law, with faith alone justifying a person according to Paul and the early church fathers. Faith is described as the sole locus of righteousness, with love not needed to complete it. Faith establishes the law by removing works from righteousness before God, allowing the law to witness against itself and stop all boasting.

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    Martin Luther's hymn "Out of the Depths I Cry to You" expresses relying on God's promises and goodness rather than one's own merits. The document also discusses how the Gospel distinguishes faith from works of the law, with faith alone justifying a person according to Paul and the early church fathers. Faith is described as the sole locus of righteousness, with love not needed to complete it. Faith establishes the law by removing works from righteousness before God, allowing the law to witness against itself and stop all boasting.

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    Romans 4

    Hope therefore in my God will I,


    On my deserts not founding;
    Upon him shall my heart rely,
    And on his goodness grounding.
    What his true Word doth promise me,
    My comfort shall and refuge be;
    That will I always be awaiting.
    Martin Luther, Out of the Depths I Cry to You

    Christs Benefits and Their Distribution
    The Gospel has now been distinguished from the law in Pauls
    argument: for we hold that a man is justified by faith alone apart
    from works of the law (Romans 3:28). Luther translated Paul
    correctlyfaith alone (sola fide)which is not a Lutheran codicil,
    but has always been the churchs translation from Origen onward,
    until it became inconvenient for scholastic and Protestant theologies
    that wanted to add love to faith as the perfection of
    righteousness. Even Pelagius translated Paul according to the
    clear meaningfaith aloneand when Luther and Pelagius
    can agree on a translation it is truly catholic. Faith alone is righteousness,
    with nothing added to complete it, especially not love.
    Faith thus emerged as the new locus which philosophy does not
    know, on which the entirety of evangelical teaching converges.
    Paul has also argued that faith does not obliterate the law from
    having something to do, but rather faith establishes it by taking
    law entirely away from righteousness before God. The law witnesses
    against the law; faith alone witnesses for the law so law can
    consign everything under sin in order to stop all boasting. The law

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