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Quote from Krauth - Why Study The Lutheran
Confessions?
This is from
an article in the Evangelical Review, soon to be
republished. Thought this apropos of our recent
discussions on Calvinism and on “UOJ Lutheranism”. Bold added.
But the grand reason
for the preparation of the Confession was that the charges
brought against the doctrines of the Reformation and their
adherents might be repelled, and that all candid men might be
convinced that nothing was taught which was not in accordance
with the word of God.
We could scarcely
believe to what extremes the impudence of these calumniators
carried them, were it not that our church still continues to
receive the attacks of those who rival them in effrontery, in
ignorance and in disregard of truth, for Lutheranism has
continued to be the terror of everything false, of
pseudo-Protestantism as well as of pseudo-Catholicism.
Alphonsus Valdesius, Secretary of the Emperor, a few days before
the Confession was presented to the Diet, told Melanchthon,
“that the
Spaniards were persuaded, that the Lutherans did not believe
in God or in the Holy Trinity, and that they made light of
Christ the Savior of the world and of the Virgin Mary, so that
they felt no doubt that to slay a Lutheran was to do God a
more acceptable service than to kill a Turk.”
