Alec Satin, the Lutheran Librarian - "Guess the OJ scholars
have not read Herder. See below from Krauth’s Conservative
Reformation."
“The
doctrine of justification is so closely associated with,
that of faith, that one must stand or fall with the other.
On this, also, the cornerstone of Lutheranism, preeminently
hold fast, I beg you, by Luther’s writings. I think it was
Spener who had felt, with reference to this system, a doubt
which, it seemed to him, nothing could overthrow; he read
Luther’s writings and his doubts vanished. But, as I have
said, Luther already mourned that not all comprehended him,
and whilst every one was crying out about faith,
justification, and good works, few had really grasped his
meaning and his spirit; the consequences, both, immediate and
long after his death, were melancholy enough. When in
this matter you need instruction, or long to have
difficulties resolved, go to this living man of faith
himself, this legitimate son of Paul. In his
writing is so much sound sense, with such strength of spirit
and fervor of an honest heart, that often, when worn out with
the frigid refinings and speculations of a more recent date, I
have found that I was revived by him alone.”
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