# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S22
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22 Literature.

shouldst thou, LORD, impute sin, LORD, who shall stand? And although
the spirit is willing, yet my flesh remains weak. But this I can
confidently say, that although before God I am not justified by
works, yet I am not conscious that through my faithful labor among
you I should have deserved such a council resolution" ...

"Know that the peace of the church, which we ministers proclaim, must
have truth for its foundation, in which alone peace with God
consists; otherwise they are cords of unrighteousness and ropes to
sin with. And since among the servants of Antichrist there is no
truth in spiritual matters, righteous evangelical preachers can no
more keep peace with them than Christ with Belial. And so henceforth
no evangelical preacher may any longer be called to Danzig, if they
are all to keep peace with the Papists. Even when the church suffers
distress (is an ecclesia pressa), one must nevertheless not play the
hypocrite. On this point I now confess my former error, for I had not
previously been able to imagine that Danzig was an ecclesia pressa;
but now experience in my own person teaches me that the ministers of
the church in Danzig are oppressed by council decree; so it must
indeed be an ecclesia pressa."*)

"Since I now clearly see to what end the many vexations that have
been caused me have hitherto been aimed, and since I am being deposed
from my church office, and even the pulpit forbidden me without any
hearing; but since my Savior does not command me to force my office
upon anyone, I therefore heed his command, and since I am persecuted
and driven out here, I must withdraw to another place; yet I recall
that a servant of Christ who has been cast out ought also to wipe the
dust from his feet as a testimony against those by whom he is driven
out." Whereupon Strauch also did this before the eyes of all, with a
handkerchief. (See Unschuldige Nachrichten, vol. 1740, p. 267 ff.)

Literature.

Published by Smith, English & Co., Philadelphia:

"The Vocabulary of Philosophy, mental, moral and metaphysical,
with quotations and references; for the use of students. By William Fleming. D. D. Prof. of Moral
Philosophy in the university of Glasgow. From the second,
revised and enlarged London edition. With an introduction,
chronology of the History of Philosophy brought down to

*) A letter had also been presented against Strauch as a subject of
accusation, one which he had written to Sweden and which had been
taken from the pocket of a passenger drowned in a shipwreck. Strauch
declared: "It is well known what one otherwise thinks of such people
as spread abroad the contents of other people's letters;" whereupon
he justified himself against all the various burdensome assertions
occurring therein.