# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1862_S261
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Theological Axioms. 261

31. Catechumeni, vera fide praediti, sunt vera membra ecclesiae.
(Quenstedt.)

Catechumens who have true faith are true members of the Church.

32. Injuste excommunicati non desinunt esse membra catholicae
ecclesiae, etiamsi visibili et particulari ecclesia ejiciantur. (Quenstedt.)

Those unjustly banned do not cease to be members of the catholic
Church, even though they are cast out of a visible and particular church.

33. Juste quidem excommunicati, sed poenitentes et ante publicam
absolutionem decedentes, revera sunt ecclesiae membra. (Quenstedt.)

Those indeed justly banned, but who are penitent and die before public
absolution, are in truth members of the Church.

34. Quando notae ecclesiae dicuntur pura verbi praedicatio et
legitima sacramentorum administratio, tunc consideratur ecclesia in statu
puro et incorrupto et comparatione facta non solum ad coetus profanos,
sed etiam ad ecclesiam corruptam et impuram; idque recte fieri, apparet
ex eo, quod definitiones, regulae ac canones dari debent de idea,
quodque ecclesiae corruptae secundum normam et formam doctrinae
sincerioris et purioris reformandae, restituendae et repurgandae sint.
(Gerh.)

When the pure preaching of the Word and the lawful administration of
the sacraments are called marks of the Church, then the Church is
considered in a pure and incorrupt state, and in comparison not only with
worldly communities, but also with a corrupt and impure church; and that
this is rightly done is clear from the fact that definitions, rules, and
laws must be given from the ideal, and that corrupt churches must be
reformed, restored, and cleansed according to the norm and form of the
purer and more sincere doctrine.

35. Ut praedicatio verbi et sacramentorum administratio est nota
ecclesiae, simpliciter et absolute loquendo; ita pura verbi praedicatio et
legitima sacramentorum administratio est nota ecclesiae purae et
incorruptae. Ut per praedicationem verbi et sacramentorum
administrationem ecclesia distinguitur a coetibus profanis, qui sunt
extra ecclesiam; sic per puram verbi praedicationem et per legitimam
sacramentorum administrationem distinguitur a coetibus haereticis, qui
sunt in ecclesia. (Gerh.)

As the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments
are the mark of the Church, when one wishes to speak unconditionally and
without qualification; so the pure preaching of the Word and the lawful
administration of the sacraments are the mark of the pure and
uncorrupted Church. As the Church is distinguished, through the preaching
of the Word and the administration of the sacraments, from worldly
communities that are outside the Church; so it is distinguished, through
pure preaching of the Word and lawful