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The top two are embedded but I will list them again, for good SEO:
The Luther quote - http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post.html
"The Holy Spirit teaches man better than all the books; He teaches him to understand the Scriptures better than he can understand them from the teaching of any other; and of his own accord he does everything God wills he should, so the Law dare make no demands upon him."
Sermons of Martin Luther, 8 vols., ed., John Nicholas Lenker, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1983, III, p. 280. Pentecost Sunday John 14:23-31.
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession -
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/05/project-gutenberg-apology-of-augsburg_5478.html
Something has happened in the last few months. People have discovered all the Lutheran primary materials published on this blog. I have no idea why one quotation can get thousands of views every month, but I am pleased that Luther's definitive statement is seen so often - now almost 20,000 times.
For Universal Objective Justification to remain convincing, beyond the ranks of a few die-hards, the dogma would have to surface in many more Reformation citations than none. Luther and the Concordists considered themselves "theologians of the Augsburg Confession." Therefore, we would have to find plenty of UOJ in the Augsburg Confession (too brief?) or the Apology to feed the delusion that UOJ is Lutheran or even Christian.
Brett Meyer's tendency to say "the Christian Book of Concord" is a good indication of its purpose, not to teach the Lutheran brand, but to define the Christian faith for all time.
Historic Christianity has never taught UOJ dogma. The Book of Concord does not even hint at it. The Apology is an eloquent witness to justification by faith.
There is ample evidence that Calvinism combined the atonement with justification, because Zwingli and Calvin had no grasp of the efficacy of the Word, no comprehension of the Means of Grace.
Pietism took over the Samuel Huber delusion of an Easter absolution of the world.
Rambach and Jay Webber repeated the Easter absolution of Huber.
Walther copied his Easter absolution UOJ from Bishop Martin Stephan, STD, a student at Halle, where Knapp and Rambach taught...wait for it...UOJ.
