# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 01 18_S73
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Der Lutheraner.
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away now and nevermore." (Rev. John, Chap. 14, v. 6, 7.)
Published by the German Ev. Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 9.  St. Louis, Mo., January 18, 1853.  No. 11.
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of some manifest errors of Pastor Grabau, set forth in his own words and compared with the false Roman as well as with the pure Lutheran doctrine.

Doctrines of Pastor Grabau.
II.
Of the Church.

6. "He teaches: 'The Lutheran Church is a visible one, outside of which no one can be saved!' Why, certainly, that the Lutheran Church is visible! . . . . And that outside the Lutheran Church no one can be saved is only too certain." (Second Synodal Letter. p. 24. Compare Inform. I. 2.) Here Pastor Grabau declares that the Catholic Church in the proper sense is a visible one.

7. "Dr. Spener at all times insists in his writings that the pious life (which of itself is indeed a jewel of the churches of God) is to be required before all else for the being of the Church, whereas the Augsburg Confession does not reckon this to the being of the Church, Art. 7., but to its well-being, Art.

Doctrine of the Roman Church.
II.
Of the Church.

6. In both passages, Matt. 16, 18. 1 Tim. 3, 15. the visible Church is spoken of, and yet we hear the Truth himself affirm that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." (The Cardinal Bellarminus lib. 3, de eccl. c.) We are all bound, on peril of eternal death, to join ourselves to the true Church and to remain in it; but this cannot be done if the Church is invisible." (The same.)"

7. "That the Church is an assembly of the saints cannot be admitted without injury to the faith. For thereby the wicked and sinners would be wholly shut out and separated from the Church. Which article was condemned in the Council of Constance, together with other errors of the condemned John Huss, and is wholly contrary to the Gospel." (So it is said in the so-called Con-

Doctrine of the Lutheran Church, which Pastor Grabau calls the Missourian.
II.
Of the Church.

6. "We call the Church invisible in a twofold sense and in a twofold respect; first, because the catholic (universal) Church of the saints is invisible, since the true believers and saints cannot be distinguished from the hypocrites by human eyes; in this sense the true Church is and remains invisible, even if there were in the whole world the most populous and most glorious particular churches. Secondly, because the particular churches can be brought into such a condition that they are not visible to all the world by an outward and conspicuous splendor, namely when heresies gain the upper hand, etc. . . . . When such a time comes that the outward splendor of the visible Church declines, then it is not absolutely necessary to salvation that anyone unite himself with a visible and particular church, but it suffices that someone through true faith be a member of the catholic Church, for it is of this that it is properly to be understood that outside the Church there is no salvation (no blessedness)." (J. Gerhard's Loci th. de eccl. § 101.) "Particular churches there are many, but Christ speaks (Matt. 16, 18.) of the Church as of the One; he designates therefore the One catholic invisible Church. (Ib. §96.)

7. The second inner property of the Church is holiness, namely of faith or doctrine, and of morals. . . . For the holiness of the Church and of its members it does not suffice that the highest cause, or God, and the intermediate causes, the Word and the Sacraments, are holy, but there is also required on the part of the members the apprehension and acceptance of the efficient causes, according to that saying, John 10, 16. 27. And therefore early in the presentation of the Augsburg Confession a separation arose between the papistical and the orthodox party, in that the latter required for the holiness of the Church the inner holiness of faith and of morals in the