"How is a person justified before God? This occurs solely by
faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ; that is, freely, not because of any
works or merits of one's own but only because of the one Mediator, Jesus
Christ, who became the sacrificial victim and propitiation on our behalf. By
this sacrifice, man obtained forgiveness of sins and became righteous; that is,
God-pleasing and acceptable. His righteousness was imputed to man for Christ's
sake, and man becomes an heir of eternal life when he believes with certainty
that God gives him these blessings for the sake of His Son."
David
Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda,
Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 105.
"Christian righteousness is the forgiveness of sin, the
imputation of the righteousness of Christ and acceptance to eternal life. It is
free, not the result of any virtues or works but is given solely because of
Christ, the Mediator, and apprehended by faith alone."
David Chytraeus, A
Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda, Decatur:
Repristination Press, 1994. p. 106.
"Scripture therefore uses these words, 'We are justified by
faith,' to teach both: 1) What the reason (or merit) for justification is, or
what the blessings of Christ are; to wit, that through and for the sake of
Christ alone we are granted forgiveness of sins, righteousness and eternal
life; and 2. How these should be applied or transferred to us; namely, by
embracing the promise and relying on Christ by faith alone."
David
Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda,
Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 107.
"What is the difference between Christianity and paganism?
Paganism has no sure Word of God and no true faith in Christ. It is unsettled.
In place of the one true God, pagans worship various factitious deities and
countless idols with ceremonies, works and sacrifices selected according to
human judgment. They imagine that they compensate for their sins with this
worship, pacify their gods and make them gracious and purchase, as it were,
blessings from them."
David Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith
(1568), trans., Richard Dinda, Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 19.
"What is the reason for certainty in Christian doctrine?...7.
the hatred of the devil over against this doctrine; David Chytraeus, A Summary
of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda, Decatur: Repristination
Press, 1994. p. 21.
"Creation is the external action of God by which God, seeing
all other things, visible and invisible, fashioned them out of nothing with
this plan of His that He might establish for Himself an eternal Church to
acknowledge and praise Him and in which He might dwell forever."
David
Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda,
Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 45.
"The good angels are spiritual beings, created in the
beginning after the image of God; that is, they are intelligent, truthful, just
and free. They are not part of another species or the souls of people; and they
are immortal, ordained by God to praise Him and to be servants of the Church
and protectors of the devout, Hebrews 1, Psalm 34, Psalm 103, and Psalm 104."
David Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard
Dinda, Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 47. Hebrews 1; Psalm 34; Psalm
103; Psalm 104
"There are eight sins which militate against faith: 1.
Epicurean and Academic doubts about God, His providence and the certainty of
the doctrine handed down through Christ and the Apostles. 2. A lack of faith
toward God. 3. In regard to the forgiveness of sins, to entertain doubts as to
whether we are in the grace of God or if we please God. 4. Despair. 5.
Stubbornness of presumption. 6. Confidence in human aids. 7. Superstition. 8.
Witchcraft."
David Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith (1568),
trans., Richard Dinda, Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 65f.
"The sins which militate against the Third Commandment are
the profanation of the Sabbath through neglect and contempt of the ministry,
through Judaic and superstitious observance of the Sabbath, or through a
shifting of the ministry into the kingdom of this world. The faithfulness of
those who teach is the virtue by which the ministers of the Church, aware of
their modest skill in Christian doctrine, carefully and zealousy discharge and
steadfastly protect all the duties of the faithful dispenser of the mysteries
of God in teaching, debating, comforting and setting their hearers an example
of true devotion and of all the virtues. The other extreme are faithlessness,
heedless teaching or negligence in office, or deserting the ministry because of
excessive anxiety or concern over one's own weakness."
David Chytraeus, A
Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda, Decatur:
Repristination Press, 1994. p. 71f.
David Chytraeus, A Summary of the Christian Faith (1568), trans., Richard Dinda, Decatur: Repristination Press, 1994. p. 9.
