# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 02 15_S81
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Der Lutheraner.
(Rev. John, Chap. 14, v. 6, 7.)
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine shall pass away neither now nor ever."
Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 9.  St. Louis, Mo., the 15th of February 1853.  No. 13.
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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.

10. Grabau unconditionally rejects the doctrine, as a false doctrine of the United Church: "That the universal Christian Church is the complex or sum of all the baptized of all Christian sects which still essentially have Word and Sacrament, even if false doctrine and incorrect sacrament should creep in. That all these sects rightly bear the name of particular churches, and all together rightly bear the name of the universal Christian Church, for the sake of the invisible Church found in them; for whose sake all these sects or particular churches also have all the power given by Christ to His Church. That also in all these particular churches God gathers a holy Church of the elect, and that unconditionally only the fellowship with the invisible Church is necessary to salvation." (Inform. II., 70.) It is to be noted here that the Informatorium imputes to us the delusion that the false churches as such are a part of the universal Church, whereas we have maintained that they belong with the catholic Church only insofar and so far as they the goods of the same

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

10. "From the time of the Apostles down to us, according to the common and altogether manifest and proper opinion of all, all the baptized who adhere to no sect and innovation have been called and held to be believers and members of the catholic Church, without regard to their life and morals, and the assembly composed of them all has been called and regarded as the true and proper catholic Church." (Ebermann l. c. p. 25.) "It is true that the children and simple, who are grown up and err without their own fault and are ready for confession and union with the Catholics if they were better taught, etc., are members of a heretical communion only by number, but in truth belong to the communion of the catholic Church; but it is false what Musäus wants to object from this, that therefore the heretical communion is a part of the catholic Church, which without doubt is most paradoxical and has been unheard of in the Church before our innovators. The Church therefore has no part among the heretics, because some goods proper to the Church are unlawfully retained by them. For a part of the Church is one thing, a shell of the goods of the Church another." (The same

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

10. "The universal visible Church is the whole multitude of called Christians . . Since the true catholic Church now in the New Testament is spread abroad through all particular churches, wherever the same are here and there on the whole earth, and thus is not to be sought outside the assembly of the called, therefore by the catholic Church is sometimes meant the whole multitude of Christians called and baptized by the Word of God in the whole world, and thus the whole of Christendom or Church of the New Testament in a broader sense, which by this word "catholic" is distinguished not only from the Church of the Old Testament (which was ordinarily gathered only among the Jewish people), but also from the several particular churches, as that out of which the catholic Church is gathered . . But when by the catholic Church is understood the whole visible multitude of the called Christians, and thus the whole structure composed of the particular churches, this occurs synecdochically by reason of the nobler part, namely the orthodox elect Christians who are found in the visible Church." (See: Zeämann's Eröffnung des uncatholischen Pabstthums. f 230.) "All particular churches constitute the One catholic Church, although they are torn asunder by divisions, only in a certain respect, namely insofar as they all use the same Word of God and Sacrament of Baptism, and each in its own domain contains a holy seed born from them." (See Musaeus Tract. de eccl. II, 156.) "Obstinate heretics sometimes retain something of the Church, namely the Sacrament of Baptism and an un-