# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S293
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Remarks on the Office. 293

The rewards are given not for the sake of the works, but according to
the works.

45. Non dicit Christus, merces vestra copiosa erit coelum, sed in coelo.
(Gerh.)

Christ does not say your great reward will be heaven, but in heaven.

46. Dei sunt munera tam nostra opera, quam ejus praemia; et qui
fecit se debitorem in illis, fecit et nos promeritores ex his. (Bernhard.)

God's gifts are both our works and his rewards; and he who made
himself a debtor through the former has also thereby made us deserving
through the latter.

47. Remunerat in nobis Deus, quod ipse praestitit, et honorat, quod
ipse perfecit. (Cyprian.)

God repays in us what he himself has furnished, and honors what he
himself has accomplished.

48. Deus ex gratia non merita nostra, sed sua in nobis dona coronat.
(Gerh.)

Out of grace God crowns not our merits, but his own gifts in us.

49. Justitia hominis non renati, utut eam temporaliter Deus honoret
donis optimis hujus vitae, tamen coram Deo larva est et hypocrisis impia.
Et mirum problema est, quod Deus remuneret justitiam, quam ipse reputet
iniquitatem. (Luther.)

The righteousness of the unregenerate man, however much God may
reward it for a time with the best gifts of this life, is nevertheless before
God a mask and godless hypocrisy. And it is a wondrous problem that God
rewards the righteousness that he himself accounts unrighteousness.

50. Aeque necessarium est, ut pii doctores tam diligenter urgeant
doctrinam de bonis operibus, quam doctrinam de fide. (Luther.)

It is equally necessary that godly teachers press and set forth the
doctrine of good works as diligently as the doctrine of faith.

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Remarks on the Office.

In the Erlangen journal for the months of July and August there are
found remarks on the office that contain matter of value in a twofold
respect. First, they proceed from the usual meaning of the word "office"
and show from it how the wholly and merely apparent contradiction is
resolved that comes to light in our theologians' statements about the
divine character and necessity of the office; and second, they show how
the doctrine of the original possession of the office on the part of the
church by no means conflicts with the doctrine of the divine institution of
the pastoral office as well. We cannot forbear communicating here the
most important of it. We read there, among other things, the following: