# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1861_S262
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

262 Theological Axioms.

62. "The fanatics confess the crucified Christ, who hung on the cross and made us blessed — that is true; but they deny that by which we receive him; that is, the means, the way, the bridge and the path, that they tear down." (Luther.)

63. "The Anabaptists, the new Arians, and the fanatical spirits, who blaspheme and defile the holy sacrament of the body and blood of our dear Lord Jesus Christ.. teach under Christ's name their own dreams, under the name of the Gospel mere laws and ceremonies; they thus remain, one way as much as the other, what they have ever been from the beginning, namely: monks, work-saints, teachers of the law and of ceremonies, without inventing for their essential nature anything but new names, and likewise other or new works." (Luther.)

64. "No heresy can endure the grace of God." (Luther.)

65. "I do not treat this article so diligently in vain; for I fear that people will not abide by this article. And there are already, alas, many among us who despise it and will not hold this article in high regard. Thus the Pope and the bishops fight hard against it. Afterward preachers will come who preach and press the article drowsily, lazily, and slothfully: then it will soon be over, and one error will come upon another." (Luther.)

66. Saepe cohorresco, quod Lutherus, nescio quo omine, valde saepe in Galatis et in Genesi vocem illam repetit: Haec doctrina post mortem nostram rursus obscurabitur. (Chemnitius.)

I often shudder together to think that Luther, I know not by what presentiment, very often in his commentaries on Galatians and on Genesis repeats that saying: This doctrine will again be obscured after our death.

67. "No one can grasp or understand this doctrine of Christian justification without the true Master and Teacher, the Holy Spirit." (Luther.)

68. "Those who imagine that they now know and understand it (the article of justification) very well have certainly not yet rightly begun to learn it." (Luther.)

69. "One sees in all histories that all heresy and error have arisen where this article has fallen, once people became complacent, as though they knew it very well, and so fell from this to other matters and began to dispute about the person of Christ," etc. (Luther.)

70. "What are Peter and Paul, what is an angel from heaven, what are all creatures, reckoned against this article, which teaches by what and how one becomes free of sin, righteous and blessed before God? If we understand this article rightly and purely, we have the true heavenly sun; but if we lose it, we have nothing else but sheer hellish darkness." (Luther.)

71. "This point is the chief article and the cornerstone, which alone