# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1857_S267
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.   267

...had to serve only to make the simple attentive, and to drive them ever more into the Scriptures, and to spur them on to an ever more careful attention to the pure testimony of our faithful fathers, and thus to make them ever firmer and more certain in the truth they have come to know, and to fill their souls with abhorrence of the depths of Satan of this last, troubled age? Above all this, the Last Day is coming, and what will their impudent mouth then avail them? It will fall silent, but the truth will remain, and those who are children of the truth will inherit the kingdom. —

A. Crämer.

Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

(Continuation.)

b. We now pass on to the enumeration of those works which have, in part, the purpose of giving the history of the symbolical books of the various communions, and in part of showing the right understanding of them and of demonstrating, by comparison of their contents, the differences of doctrine which separate the several communions from one another. Here we cannot forbear naming first a more recent work, namely the following: "Allgemeine christliche Symbolik. Von H. E. F. Guericke, Doctor of Theology and Philosophy, Professor of Theology at Halle. 2nd edition. Leipzig 1846." This book treats first, by way of introduction, of the concept, the names, the method, and the value of symbolics, and then gives a survey of the history of this discipline (pages 1–13). Of the three principal parts into which the book falls, the first (isagogic) part treats of the several Christian church communions in general and contains the outlines of a historical development of them before and since the Reformation (pp. 14–64). The second part treats of the confessional writings 1. of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2. of the Roman Catholic, 3. of the "orthodox" Greek, and 4. of the Reformed Church, and finally 5. of the Arminians, Socinians, Mennonites (Baptists), Quakers, and Swedenborgians (pp. 65–165). The third part gives a comparative presentation of the symbolical doctrinal system of the most important individual Christian church communions in 7 sections; the 1st shows the difference with respect to the source of knowledge of the divine revelation, the 2nd with respect to theology in the narrower sense (the doctrine of the essence of God and of the worship of God), the 3rd concerning anthropology (the doctrine of the original state and of the present condition of man), the 4th concerning Christology, the 5th with regard to soteriology (the doctrine of justification, grace, predestination), the 6th in view of the doctrine of the sacraments, and the 7th finally with respect to the doctrine of the Church and to worship (pp. 166–664). As appendices there follow further 1. Luther's confession of faith, 2. the confession