# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1864_S326
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326 The Doctrine of the Lutheran Church Concerning Sunday.

Christ, and find and seek nothing in it but their own dreams. And here we
lay the foundation from St. Paul, 1 Tim. 1:9: To the righteous man (as a
Christian indeed is) no law is given. And Peter, Acts 15:10: Why do you
tempt God, to lay upon the disciples a burden which neither we nor our
fathers were able to bear? But we hope to be saved through the grace of
Jesus Christ, just as they too became so. With this saying (just as Paul
with his own) St. Peter abolishes for the Christians the whole of Moses
with all his laws.
Yes, you say: that would indeed be true of the ceremonies and the
judicialia, that is, what Moses teaches concerning outward worship and
outward government; but the Decalogue, that is, the Ten Commandments,
are surely not abolished, for in them nothing is said of ceremonies and
judicialia. I answer: I know quite well that this is a common old
distinction that is made, but made without understanding; for out of the
Ten Commandments flow and hang all the other commandments and the
whole of Moses.
For precisely because he wills to be God alone, and to have no other
gods, etc., he established so many and various ceremonies or acts of
worship, and thereby expounded the first commandment through these
same, and taught how it was to be kept. Likewise, because he wills
obedience to parents, and that no adultery, murder, theft, or false
testimony be tolerated, he gave the judicialia, or the ordinances of outward
government, so that such commandments might be understood and carried
out.
Therefore it is not true that there are no ceremonies in the Ten
Commandments, or no judicialia; they are all in there and hang together
and belong within them. And to show this, God himself set in two
ceremonies with express words, namely, images and the Sabbath, and
means to prove that these two items are ceremonies, likewise abolished, in
their own way, in the New Testament — so that one may see how Dr.
Carlstadt, in his book on the Sabbath, argues just as cleverly as he does
about images. For St. Paul, Col. 2:16–17, speaks freely and plainly: Let
no one make you feel guilty of conscience over food and drink, or in
regard to a feast day, or a new moon, or a sabbath, which is a shadow of
what was to come. Here St. Paul indeed abolishes the Sabbath by name,
and calls it the shadow that has passed, since the body, which is Christ
himself, has come.
Likewise, Gal. 4:10–11: You observe days, months, seasons, and years;
I fear for you, that I may perhaps have labored over you in vain. Here he
calls it wasted labor to keep days and feasts, among which the Sabbath is
included. Isaiah too foretold this beforehand, Isa. 66:23: There shall be a
sabbath after another, and a new moon after another, that is, every day
will be sabbath in the New Testament, with no distinction of time.
And thanks are owed to devout Paul, together with Isaiah, for having
freed us so long beforehand from the rabble-spirits; otherwise we would
have to sit through the days of the Sabbath, and hold our head in our
hands, and await the heavenly