# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1857_S84
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On the Distinction between the Essential and the Non-Essential in Doctrine.   84

own satisfaction for sin, concerning Christ's single sacrifice for our sin and the papal, falsely invented sacrifice of the Mass, concerning the sacrament of the Holy Supper and its proper use under both kinds, concerning the sole invocation of the true God and of Christ our Lord and Savior, and the contrary invocation of departed saints, veneration and worship of images and relics, concerning the Christian Church and its head, concerning the Pope's usurped supreme power over the whole Christian Church and over all worldly kingdoms, and whatever else there may be of such matters over which our Church and the papal Church have now contended for more than a hundred and fifty years and still contend; as also concerning the universal grace of God, concerning Christ's universal merit and the universal promises of grace of God grounded therein, concerning the election of grace in Christ, faith in Christ, and the rejection of unbelievers on account of their unbelief foreseen from eternity, and concerning the contrary doctrine of election and reprobation from God's mere decree, concerning faith — whether it can be lost, and is actually lost through sins committed against conscience — concerning the true presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Holy Supper, and further points of doctrine of the same kind, which are in dispute between us and the Reformed or Calvinist churches, none of which are otiosae et spinosae quaestiones, over which one might dispute pro et contra, sursum et deorsum, without prejudice to the true Christian doctrine of faith and life — but rather are doctrines partly necessary for the kindling and preserving of true faith, for wholesome instruction and for the edification of true Christianity, and partly dangerous, damnable errors, harmful to men's salvation, leading to superstition or to carnal security — and are without doubt comprehended under the doctrine and the pattern of sound words, to which Paul so urgently and earnestly exhorts his Timothy, and in him all Christian bishops, teachers, and preachers, to hold fast and unmoved; these latter, however, belong without doubt among the errors of the seducing spirits and the doctrines of devils, of which the Spirit has plainly said that they shall come forth in the latter times (1 Tim. 4:1), and against which Paul so faithfully exhorts his Timothy to preach the word, to be instant in season and out of season, to reprove, to rebuke, to exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine (2 Tim. 4:2)."

The second citation, which the "Zeitschrift" reproduces in the Latin language, taken from Musäus's tract on (Calixtine) Syncretism, pp. 35—38, reads as follows:

"More correctly, the theologians of our party take the foundation of the faith and the fundamental articles of the faith in a broader sense, and hold that, for the entering into a true peace of the Church and brotherly unity, agreement is required in all those parts of Christian doctrine which constitute the foundation of the faith,