Everything that is to be a good work must arise and flow from this true fountain and channel. So apart from the Ten Commandments no work or thing can be good or pleasing to God.—LC I:311
The miserable blind people do not see that no person can go far enough to keep one of the Ten Commandments as it should be kept. Both the Apostles’ Creed and the Lord’s Prayer must come to our aid (as we shall hear). By them power and strength to keep the commandments is sought and prayed for and received continually. —LC I:316
Everything is to flow from the First Commandment’s power.... But note what God would have you do, what He will quite surely demand of you. If you skip that, you have an angry Judge. But if you do the work, you have a gracious Father.—LC I:327
We should have them always in our memory. Then we might do them in all our actions and ways.—LC I:331
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