# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1847 04 20_S91
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3. All who are baptized into Jesus Christ are baptized into his death, and through Baptism are buried with him into his death, and have put on Christ.

4. Baptism is the washing of regeneration, because in it we are born anew and are sealed and endowed with grace by the Spirit of adoption.

5. Unless a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God; the case of necessity, however, is not meant here.

6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and by nature we are all children of God's wrath, for we are begotten of sinful seed, and in sin are we all conceived.

The Fourth Article.
On Election by Grace and God's Eternal Foreordination.

The pure and true doctrine of our churches on this article.

1. That Christ died for all men, and as the Lamb of God has borne the sin of the whole world.

2. That God has created no one for damnation, but wills that all men be helped and come to the knowledge of the truth. He commands all that they should hear his Son Christ in the Gospel, and thereby promises the power and working of the Holy Spirit for conversion and salvation.

3. That many men are damned through their own fault — those who either will not hear the Gospel of Christ, or who fall again from grace through error against the foundation, or through sin against conscience.

4. That all sinners who repent are received into grace, and none is excluded, even though his sins be blood-red. For God's mercy is far greater than the sin of the whole world, and God has mercy on all his works.

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False and Erroneous Doctrine of the Calvinists.

On the Holy Supper.

1. That the aforesaid words of Christ are to be understood figuratively, and not as they read.

2. That in the Supper there are only bare signs, and that the body of Christ is as far from the bread as the highest heaven is from the earth.

3. That Christ is present there only with his power and working, and not with his body — just as the sun is present and effective here below on earth with its light and working, but the sun itself is up above in heaven.

4. That it is a typicum corpus, a figurative body, which is only signified and prefigured.

5. That it is received only by faith, which soars up into heaven, and not orally.

6. That only the worthy receive it, but the unworthy, who do not have such a faith as can ascend into heaven, receive nothing but bread and wine.

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False and Erroneous Doctrine of the Calvinists:

On the Person of Christ, which conflicts chiefly with the third and fourth articles of the pure doctrine.

1. That "God is man" and "man is God" is a figurative expression.

2. That the humanity has communion with the deity not in fact and in truth, but only in name and words.

3. That it is impossible for God, with all his omnipotence, to bring it about that Christ's natural body be in more than one place at once.

4. That Christ, according to his humanity, has received through his redemption only created gifts and a measured power, and does not know and is not capable of all things.

5. That Christ, according to his humanity, rules in absence, just as the King of Spain rules over the new islands.

6. That it is a damnable idolatry when one places the trust and faith of the heart in Christ not only according to his deity but also according to his humanity, and directs the honor of invocation to it.

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False and Erroneous Doctrine of the Calvinists.
On Holy Baptism.

1. That Baptism is merely an outward water-bath, by which only an inward washing away of sins is signified.

2. That Baptism does not work or give regeneration, faith, the grace of God, and salvation, but only signifies and seals the same.

3. Not all who are baptized with water thereby obtain the grace of Christ or the gift of faith, but only the elect.

4. That regeneration does not take place in and at Baptism, but only afterward, in the years of adulthood — in some cases, indeed, only in old age.

5. That salvation does not depend on Baptism; therefore emergency baptism should not be permitted in the Church, but if the service of the Church cannot be had, the little child should simply die without Baptism.

6. The children of Christians are holy before Baptism and from the mother's womb onward — indeed, even while still in their mother's womb — within the covenant of eternal life; otherwise holy Baptism could not be administered to them.

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False and Erroneous Doctrine of the Calvinists.
On Election by Grace and God's Foreordination.

1. That Christ died not for all men, but only for the elect.

2. That God created the greater part of mankind for eternal damnation, and does not will that they be converted and saved.

3. That the elect and the regenerate cannot lose faith and the Holy Spirit and be damned, even if they commit all manner of grievous sin and vice.

4. Those who are not elect must be damned and cannot attain salvation, even though they were baptized a thousand times and went daily to the Lord's Supper, and even lived as holy and blameless a life as is at all possible.

Puseyism — Jesuitism.

Mr. Editor!

When I recently read the piece on Jesuit morality in your paper, memories were awakened in me from my stay in England which make it my duty to publish the following facts, as these may furnish one of the many proofs that the Jesuits of our day pay homage to the same shameful principles which every honorable man of the world — let alone a Christian — must condemn in their forebears. It is now more than three years since I was recommended by friends in London to Oxford as a teacher of German. The name of my teacher, the philologist Thiersch of Munich, soon gained me entrance into the foremost colleges of this ancient university. But I soon also perceived into what an uncanny, unclean place I had come. If I had earlier had occasion in Munich to learn to abhor the shameless proselytizing of the Romanists, then here I had jumped out of the frying pan into the fire; for here I found whole guilds of Anglo-Catholic Jesuits — to call the Puseyites by this name will be justified by what follows. Foremost in learning, and most accomplished in dexterity and adaptability, I had to hear how they sought, by all sorts of wicked artifices, to get hold of every talented young student. According to their eloquent presentation, there were no more wicked people than the old Reformers of the Church, upon whom they pronounced the anathema aloud; the Holy Spirit, they said, was to be found nowhere except in the Roman Church, where from the time of the apostles it had passed from hand to hand upon the bishops through ordination; where — in celibacy, monkery, fasting, etc. — alone the holy life was to be found, and in their divine services, that is, in their blasphemous sacrifice of the Mass alone, the truly devout gestures and the right worship (worshipping) were to be found; there one read with admiration the theological writings of the old French Jesuits and found in them alone the old learning; there they knew only how to sing the praises of the Roman harlot, as being the true Church. And this was done by men who at that time still outwardly belonged entirely to the English High Church, drew benefices from it, occupied its professorial chairs, and had sworn to its Thirty-Nine Articles of Faith.*)

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