# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1861_S163
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 163

15. "Sic discernenda sunt lex et evangelium, ut ev. ponas in coelo, legem
in terra, ut evangelii justitiam appelles coelestem et divinam, legis terrenam
et humanam, uique tam diligenter distinguas justitiam evangelii a legis
justitia, quam diligenter distinxit Deus coelum a terra, lucem a tenebris,
diem a nocte. Haec sit lux et dies, illa tenebrae ac nox, atque utinam
adhuc longius eas discernere possemus."

The Law and the Gospel are to be so distinguished that one places the
Gospel in heaven and the Law on earth; that one calls the righteousness
of the Gospel a heavenly and divine righteousness, and that of the Law
an earthly and human one; and that one separates the righteousness of
the Gospel from the righteousness of the Law as exactly as God separated
heaven from earth, light from darkness, day from night. Let the former
be the light and the day, the latter the darkness and the night — and
would that we could still distinguish them even further!

16. "Fides impetrat, quod lex imperat."

Faith obtains what the Law commands.

17. Lex ostendit peccatum, ev. gratiam.

The Law shows sin, the Gospel shows grace.

18. Lex morbum indicat, ev. remedium.

The Law points out the sickness, the Gospel the remedy.

19. Lex debiti summam flagitat, ev. ejusdem remissionem annuntiat.

The Law demands the sum of the debt; the Gospel proclaims its
remission.

20. "Lex docet, quid debeas et quo careas, Christus dat, quod facias et
habeas."

The Law teaches what you owe and what you lack; Christ gives what
you are to do and to have.

21. "Lege operum dicit Dominus: fac, quod jubeam; lege fidei nos dicimus:
Domine, da, quod jubes, et jube, quod velis."

By the law of works the Lord says: do what I command; by the law
of faith we say: Lord, give what you command, and command what you
will.

22. Lex est doctrina de faciendo, ev. de credendo.

The Law is the doctrine of what one is to do, the Gospel of what one
is to believe.
by virtue of its form. The promises of the Law are conditional, for they require
perfect obedience, making the condition of perfect fulfillment their cause. But the
gospel promises are promises of grace and, so to speak, promises that give freely.
4. By virtue of its effect. The Law punishes sin and terrifies man, but the Gospel
proclaims the forgiveness of sins and raises up through a life-giving comfort.
5. By virtue of its objects. The Law is to be proclaimed to the ungodly, to secure
and stiff-necked sinners, for it concerns the old man; but the Gospel is to be
proclaimed to contrite hearts and to consciences terrified by the feeling of sin.
Loc. th. de ev. §54.