# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1861_S258
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

258 Theological Axioms.

...for it remains true, as Luther rightly says: Bene conveniunt et sunt connexa inseparabiliter fides et opera, sed sola fides est, quae apprehendit benedictionem sine operibus, et tamen nunquam est sola. (Concordia.)

["Faith and works agree well together and are inseparably connected, but it is faith alone which apprehends the blessing without works, and yet is never alone."]

"Justification and renewal are not so separated from one another that a true faith could for a time exist and stand alongside an evil purpose; rather, this indicates only the order — how the one precedes or follows the other; for it still remains true that Dr. Luther rightly said: Faith and good works fit and belong well together, but it is faith alone that lays hold of the blessing without the works, yet is never, at any time, alone."

36. Falsum erit, si quis dicat, fidem non posse justificare sine operibus; vel fidem, quatenus caritatem, qua formetur, conjunctam habeat, justificare; vel fidei, ut justificet, necessariam esse praesentiam bonorum operum aut ad justificationem vel in articulo justificationis esse necessariam praesentiam bonorum operum; vel bona opera esse causam sine qua non, quae per particulas exclusivas ex articulo justificationis non excludantur. (Concordia.)

"It is false and wrong for anyone to say: that faith cannot justify without works; or that faith justifies or makes righteous in such a way because it has love joined to it, for the sake of which love this is ascribed to faith; or that the presence of good works is necessary in the article of justification or for justification, so that good works should be a cause without which man could not be justified — works which, by the exclusive particles 'without works,' etc., that is, when Paul says 'without works,' are not excluded from the article of justification."

37. Non omnia, quae ad veram conversionem requiruntur, etiam ad justificationem pertinent; ad justificationem enim tantum haec requiruntur atque necessaria sunt: gratia Dei, meritum Christi, et fides, quae haec ipsa Dei beneficia in promissione evangelii amplectitur. (Concordia.)

"Not everything that belongs to conversion also belongs at the same time to the article of justification; to which alone belong, and are needful, God's grace, the merit of Christ, and faith, which embraces these very benefits of God in the promise of the Gospel."

38. Multa scripturae testimonia non definiunt causam justificationis, sed modum tantum, quem Deus observare solet in introducendis credentibus ad vitam aeternam. (Conr. Dietrich.)

Many testimonies of Scripture do not describe the cause of justification, but only the manner which God is accustomed to observe in bringing believers into eternal life.

39. Non quod adest, statim causa est. (Id.)

What is present alongside a thing is not therefore at once its cause.

40. Non semper, quod post hoc, propter hoc.

[Not always is what comes after a thing on account of it.]