# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1856_S120
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120 The Whole Body of Lutheran Symbols, the Foundation, etc.

As we conclude, however, from the excerpts communicated above, the author of the article in question may well have the concern that the doctrine of consubstantiation and impanation necessarily lies in the Lutheran paraphrase of the words of the sacrament through "in, with, and under." Let us therefore be permitted to express ourselves in what follows in justification of this type of doctrine.

(To be concluded.)

The Whole Body of Lutheran Symbols, the Foundation
of the True American Lutheran Church.

It is very often asserted that all the symbolical books of the Lutheran Church, as they are contained in the so-called Book of Concord of 1580, were only ever the foundation of the Lutheran Church in Europe, but never became such for the Lutheran Church here. Indeed, some go so far as to assert that even the Augsburg Confession has here, from the beginning, been accepted as a binding church confession only insofar as the supposedly sole basic doctrines of the Reformation are set forth substantially correctly in it.

This, however, only someone can assert who is either wholly unacquainted with the history of the origin and first development of our Church here in America, or unscrupulous enough to falsify that history.

Perhaps it will not be uninteresting to our esteemed readers to have some proofs of this assertion put into their hands. We give such proofs from the well-known large work which contains the church history of its time, and which bears the following title: "Acta historico-ecclesiastica, or Collected Accounts of the Most Recent Church Histories. Weimar." In it we read, among other things, the following from the year 1749:

"At Raritan (in Pennsylvania) Mr. Weygand had until now kept school. Now when Mr. Mühlenberg, who had charge of this congregation, visited it, and learned that he [Weygand] held sound doctrine, had diligently occupied himself with the youth, and had led an orderly life, he asked the congregation whether, since it was not possible for him (Mr. Mühlenberg) to make the long journey alone, they wished to have Mr. Weygand ordained as their preacher and give him a regular call. Since they were satisfied with this, Mr. Mühlenberg drew up a call in the English language, in which he was called to propagate the pure doctrine according to the Word of the apostles and prophets and of our whole body of symbolical books, but on the condition that he would thereafter teach and live accordingly. Mr. Mühlen-