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Take thou the work of the law \ [Gal 2:16\] . . . generally for that which is contrary to grace. Whatsoever is not grace, is the law, whether it be judicial, ceremonial, or the Ten Commandments. Wherefore if thou couldest do the work of the law according to this commandment: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,' &c. (not to say here that no man yet ever did or could do so), yet thou shouldest not be justified before God; for a man is not justified by the works of the law\[, but, as Luther puts it some pages earlier, by 'grace only and alone'\](128, 102).
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Significantly, Luther makes the same point even over against the doctrine that, although a human being is able to do what the law requires and thereby to be justified, this is so thanks only to the love of God poured into her or his heart, i.e., caritas infusa / fides infusa.
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