# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S290
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

290 Theological Axioms.

One must not look at what the fathers did, but at whether they did it
rightly.

9. Male vivitur, ubi male creditur.

There one lives wrongly, where one believes wrongly.

10. Ut opus aliquod sit cultus Dei, requiritur non tantum causa fina-
lis, verum etiam materialis. (Gerh.)

That a work be an act of worship requires not only the purpose of
serving God thereby, but also an act that is truly an act of worship.

11. Good works have no name. (Luther.)

12. Bona opera non nominibus, sed adverbiis sunt judicanda. (Balth.
Meissner.)

Good works are to be judged not by the nouns naming them, but by
the adverbs qualifying them.

13. Illa demum opera sunt bona, quae etiam bene fiunt. (B. Meissner.)

Only those works are good which are also done well.

14. Cum facit homo aliquid, ubi peccare non videtur: si non propter
hoc facit; propter quod facere debet, peccare convincitur. (Augustin.)

If a man does something in which he does not appear to sin, he is
nevertheless convicted of sin if he does not do it for the sake for which he
ought to do it.

15. Non poena, sed causa facit martyrem. (Augustin.)

"Suffering does not make a martyr, but the right cause of the suffering
makes martyrs." (Luther.)

16. Qui invitus facit, non facit.

Whoever does (something good) unwillingly does not really do it at all.

17. Stare in via Domini et non proficere, est deficere. (Bernhard.)

To stand still on the Lord's way and not go forward is to fall back.

18. Ubi incipis nolle fieri melior, desinis esse bonus.

Where you begin to be unwilling to become better, there you cease to
be good.

19. Qui virtutem suam publicare vult, non virtuti laborat, sed gloriae.

Whoever wants his virtues made known is concerned not for virtue but
for glory.

20. Qui nihil agit, male agit.

Whoever does nothing does wrong.

21. Good, godly works never make a good, godly man; rather a good,
godly man does good, godly works. Evil works never make an evil man;
rather an evil man does evil works. Just as the trees must exist before the
fruit, and the fruit does not make the trees either good or evil, but the
trees make the fruit — so too the man in his person must first be godly or
evil before he does good or evil works. (Luther.)

22. Prius est mutandus homo, ut opera mutentur. (Augustin.)