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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: best preachers, and much less so to keep silence altogether on
these things and to teach in their stead the laws of men and the
decrees of the Fathers. There are now not a few persons who
preach and read about Christ with the object of moving the human
affections to sympathise with Christ, to indignation against the
Jews, and other childish and womanish absurdities of that kind.
Now preaching ought to have the object of promoting faith in Him,
so that He may not only be Christ, but a Christ for you and for
me, and that what is said of Him, and what He is called, may work
in us. And this faith is produced and is maintained by preaching
why Christ came, what He has brought us and given to us, and to
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