# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1861_S356
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356 Theological Axioms.

24. Deus omnia facit, sacerdos linguam et manus praebet. (Chrysost.)

God does everything; the priest only lends tongue and hand.

25. Quid tibi facit malus minister, ubi bonus est Dominus? (Au-
gustin.)

What harm does a bad minister do you, where the Lord is good?

26. Nihil habet rationem sacramenti extra usum a Deo institutum.
(Melanchthon.)

Nothing has the character of a Sacrament outside the use instituted
by God.

27. Dispensatio sacramentalis in δόσει καὶ λήψει consistit. (Gerh.)

The administration of the Sacrament consists in giving and receiving.

28. Fides non facit, sacramentum esse, sed prodesse. (Kromayer.)

Faith does not make the Sacrament to be a Sacrament, but makes it to
be beneficial.

29. Sacramenta habent efficaciam sine fide, sed non prosunt sine fide.
(Carpzov.)

The Sacraments are efficacious without faith, but are not beneficial
without faith.

30. "Damnamus totum populum scholasticorum, qui docent, quod sa-
cramenta non ponenti obicem conferant gratiam ex opere operato sine bono
motu utentis, h. e., sine fide." (Apolog. A. C.)

We condemn the whole crowd of the Scholastics, who teach that the
Sacraments confer grace on whoever places no obstacle in the way,
merely on account of the deed done, even though the one using them is
without any good motion — that is, without faith.

31. "If the Sacrament gives me grace because I receive it, then I in
truth obtain grace from my own works, and not from faith." (Luther.)

32. Fides sacramenti, non sacramentum justificat. (Apolog. A. C.)

"Faith in the use of the Sacrament, not the Sacrament itself, makes
us righteous before God."

33. Quicquid convenit verbo evangelii generatim, id sacramentis non
est denegandum, quia sacramenta sunt verbum visibile. (Gerh.)

Whatever belongs to the Word of the Gospel in general is not to be
denied to the Sacraments, because the Sacraments are the visible
Word.

34. Fides est et effectus sacramentorum et eorundem organum reci-
piens. (Quenstedt.)

Faith is both an effect of the Sacraments and the receiving
instrument of the same.

35. Sunt unius rei plures fines. (Apolog. A. C.)

One and the same thing has several purposes.

36. Sacramenta sunt notae confessionis. (Wittebergens.)

The Sacraments are marks of confession.