# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 03 15_S89
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Der Lutheraner.
(Revelation of John, Chap. 14, vv. 6, 7.)
"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away now and nevermore."
Published by the German Ev. Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.
Edited by C. F. W. Walther.
Volume 9.  St. Louis, Mo., the 15th of March 1853.  No. 15.
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Abridged Tabular Survey
of several manifest errors of Pastor Grabau, laid before the reader in his own words and compared with the false Romish as well as with the pure Lutheran doctrine.

Doctrines of Pastor Grabau.
II.
Of the Church.

14. "The congregation does not have the keys immediately," but mediately in the Word of God and in the holy ministry of preaching." (Inform. II, 23.) "When it is now said that this peculiar church power was given by Christ to His Church on earth, then nothing else is said than that it is instituted in the Gospel and set up in the Church through orderly means by the power of the Gospel, in the form of the office of bishop or ministry of preaching." (Ib. I, 85. 86.)

15. "In this house of God the keys of Christ now go by means of the Gospel and ministry of preaching, not that they have their origin there (from this house), but that there is the appointed spiritual place where they show their power for the comfort and salvation of souls and are in use. And in this sense the Smalcald Articles say that the keys have been given to the whole Church, not that every church member is a source of church power, but that the whole Church of JESUS on earth is the place where the keys of Christ go, stand, dwell and abide . . they are called a power and authority of the Church, because they elsewhere

Doctrine of the Romish Church.
II.
Of the Church.

14. To the proof from Matt. 18, 18., that the Church has received the keys immediately, Cardinal Bellarmine answers: "The power to loose and to bind is promised to the Church, but that which is exercised in the prelates of the Church, not in the remaining multitude. For it is said in truth that the Church looses and binds, because its prelates loose and bind, just as it is said of a man that he speaks and sees, although he speaks only by means of the tongue and sees by means of the eyes." (See: Gerh. loc. de min. §. 87.)

15. "Cardinal Bellarmine writes: 'Peter received the keys in the person of the Church, because he received them for the benefit and use of the whole Church, and because he was not to use them alone, but to hand them on to his successors and to impart them to other bishops and presbyters.'" (See Gerhard's loc. de min. §. 87.) Gerhard answers Bellarmine thereupon: "That Peter received the keys for the benefit and use of the Church and possesses them in common with other bishops and presbyters, we grant, but we deny that this is to be understood exclusively, as though the keys were given to Peter and the bishops alone, but not to the whole Church. For as Peter confessed Christ in the person of the Church, not only in

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

14. "As the promise of the Gospel belongs certainly and without means to the whole Church, so the keys belong without means (immediately) to the whole Church." (Smalcald Articles. Appendix, Of the Power and Jurisdiction of the Pope, p. 345.) According to the Latin copy it reads: "Christ, speaking of the keys, says Matt. 18.: Where two or three are agreed on earth, etc. He therefore ascribes the keys to the Church originally and immediately."

15. "To the question: 'To whom are the keys of heaven committed?' John Gerhard answers: 'How unjust the Roman Pope is toward the Church is already evident to everyone from this alone, that he has not without robbery of the Church snatched this excellent dignity wholly to himself and his bishops, on account of I know not what character impressed upon them in ordination, and has excluded from it all the rest, whom they call laymen, most contemptuously, as if they were swine, who dare not so much as mutter against the clergy in this matter, to say nothing of its being permitted them (the laymen) to take upon themselves to pass a judgment upon the same (the clergy). In setting our opinion, with Dr. Luther, the blessed Chemnitz and other orthodox theologians, against the pride of these (Papists), we establish that this privilege was granted by Christ to the whole Church, His most beloved Bride, who is the distributress of the heavenly goods, Ps. 68, 13, to whom already before, Matt. 18, 18., the richest promise concerning this matter had been made. Yea, even from this passage (John 20, 23.), whatever the adversary may prate against it, it is not obscurely concluded that this power belongs to all those who are anointed with the Holy Ghost. Since now all true Christians have the Holy Ghost