Alec Satin:
Here’s a good quote
from Krauth - “Relation of our Confessions…”
We are not such
gross idolaters, nor so ignorant of the declarations of these
great men themselves, as to imagine that, they left nothing
for their posterity to do. Whether they have done it, and done
it well, is, however, a very distinct question. To assume
that, merely because we follow them in order of time, we have
gone further than they in truth, is to lay the foundation of a
principle more absurd and pernicious than the worst doctrine
of the church of Rome, and is as foolish as to say that my
child four years of age is a greater astronomer than Newton,
because she lives in the century after him.
If we do not
contemptuously reject all aid in the search after truth, to
whom can we go with more confidence than to the great authors
of the Reformation? We know them at least to be sincere; no
hireling scribblers, writing to tickle the fancy of the time;
we know them to be the thorough masters of their subjects,
conscious that every word would be examined and every argument
fiercely assailed by their foes.
Every doctrine
they established by the word of God and confirmed by the
witness of his church. Every objection which is now urged was
then brought to bear upon the truth. Controversy has added
nothing to its stores, they knew perfectly those superficial,
miscalled reasons which make men now so confident in saying,
that had the Reformers only lived in our time, they would have
abandoned much to which they held. They knew then, but they
lived and died unchanging in their adherence to what they had
taught as truth.+
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| "Lord Buchholz, is Krauth talking about us, whom have done so much for Holy Mother Synod?" LB: "That is another misleading quotation. We protect our younglings from such pollution by marking dangerous words in red - MISLEADING!" [GJ - Yes, they do that at Mordor in Mequon.] |
