# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1861_S354
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354 Theological Axioms.

10. Sacramenta sunt veluti epitome quaedam evangelii. (Gerh.)

The Sacraments are, as it were, an epitome of the Gospel.

11. Si incorporeus esses, nude tibi ipsa dona incorporea Deus tradi-
disset; quoniam vero conjuncta est corpori anima tua, in sensibilibus intel-
ligenda tibi traduntur. (Chrysost.)

Were you a bodiless being, God would have given you his bodiless
gifts without anything bodily; but because your soul is joined to a
body, the spiritual is given to you in sensible things.

12. "In hoc nobis est constanter perseverandum, quod Deus non velit
nobiscum aliter agere, nisi per vocale verbum et sacramenta, et quod,
quidquid sine verbo et sacramentis jactatur ut Spiritus, sit ipse diabolus."
(Art. Schmalc.)

"We must firmly hold to this: that God does not will to deal with us
men except through his outward Word and Sacrament; and that whatever
is boasted of as the Spirit apart from such Word and Sacrament is
the devil himself."

13. Non confundi debent actio verbi et sacramentorum, quatenus fidem
generant, alunt atque excitant, et actio verbi et sacramentorum, prout ad
justificationem concurrunt proxime. Cum enim in priori actione verbum
et sacramenta sese habeant ut organa tum effectiva virium supernaturalium
ad credendum, tum excitativa motuum spiritualium fidei; in posteriori, sci-
licet in justificatione, organa saltem dativa sunt, collativa et obsignativa
boni justifici, quod est obedientia Christi. (Carpzov.)

The action of the Word and the Sacraments, insofar as they generate,
nourish, and awaken faith, and the action of the Word and the
Sacraments, insofar as they are the proximate instrumental causes of
justification, must not be confused. For while, in the former action,
the Word and the Sacraments have the character of instruments by
which both the powers needed for faith are effected and the spiritual
movements of faith are aroused, in the other action — namely, in
justification — they are only such instruments as give, communicate,
and seal the justifying good (which is the obedience of Christ).

14. Baptismus et eucharistia omnium confessione vere et proprie sunt
sacramenta; inde igitur colligemus, quae tanquam substantialia requirantur,
ut aliquid vere et proprie sit sacramentum. (Chemnitius.)

Baptism and the Holy Supper are, by everyone's confession, truly and
properly Sacraments; from this we may therefore infer what is
essentially required for something to be a Sacrament in the true and
proper sense.

15. Quod est commune utrique testamento, non est proprium Novi
Testamenti sacramentum. (Quenstedt.)

Whatever is common to both testaments is no proper Sacrament of the
New Testament.