# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1862_S8
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8 Theological Axioms.

15. Satius est, baptismum repetere, quam de semel suscepto dubitare. (Kromayer.)

It is better that baptism be repeated than that one remain in doubt as to whether one has already once received it.

16. Ordo non dominatur sacramentis, sed subservit. (Quenstedt.)

Order does not rule over the sacraments, but serves them.

17. Propter sacramenta ordo institutus, non propter ordinem sacramenta, necessitati igitur ordo cedere debet. (Gerh.)

For the sake of the sacraments the order was instituted, not the sacraments for the sake of the order; the order must therefore yield to necessity.

18. Major necessitas initiatorii, quam confirmatorii sacramenti. (Dannhauer.)

The necessity of the sacrament of admission is greater than that of the sacrament of confirmation.

19. Extrema necessitas locum habet, quando homini aut sine baptismo moriendum, aut a privato baptismus est administrandus. (Gerh.)

The case of extreme necessity arises only when a person must either die without baptism, or have his baptism administered by a person who does not hold the public office.

20. "Baptism is not our work, but God's." (Luther's Large Catechism.)

21. Ex vocabulis agraphis non sumuntur argumenta apodictica. (Conr. Diteric.)

From words not taken from Scripture, no unanswerable proofs can be derived.

22. Non sentimus cum iis, qui dicunt, Deum spiritualem virtutem aquae contulisse et indidisse, quae peccatum per aquam abluat. (Art. Schmalc.)

"We do not hold with those who say that God has placed a spiritual power into the water, which washes away sin through the water."

23. Non facimus cum iis, qui docent, baptismo ablui peccatum ex assistentia divinae voluntatis, et hanc ablutionem fieri tantum per Dei voluntatem, et minime per verbum et aquam. (Art. Schmalc.)

"We do not hold with those who teach that baptism washes away sin by the assistance of the divine will, in such a way that this washing occurs solely through God's will, and not at all through the word or the water."

24. Efficacia baptismi est organica. (Dannhauer.)

Baptism is effective as an instrument.

25. Unde ista tanta virtus aquae, ut corpus tangat, et cor abluat, nisi faciente verbo? Non quia dicitur, sed quia creditur. (Augustin.)

Whence comes that so great power of water, that it touches the body and washes the heart, except from the word which does this? Not because it is spoken, but because it is believed.