[aMorePerfectUnion]

"For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law."

-Romans 3:28

[ebb tide]

[28] "By faith": The faith, to which the apostle here attributes man's justification, is not a presumptuous assurance of our being justified; but a firm and lively belief of all that God has revealed or promised. Heb. 11. A faith working through charity in Jesus Christ. Gal. 5. 6. In short, a faith which takes in hope, love, repentance, and the use of the sacraments. And the works which he here excludes, are only the works of the law: that is, such as are done by the law of nature, or that of Moses, antecedent to the faith of Christ: but by no means, such as follow faith, and proceed from it.
Douay-Rheims

[Petrosius]

Read all of Romans and you will see that by “works of the Law” Paul means circumcision and the Mosaic Law. Romans is a refutation of the Judaizers, not a exposition of Luther’s “faith alone.”