# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1853 05 24_S129
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Der Lutheraner.

(Rev. John, Chap. 14, v. 6. 7.)

"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pure shall to eternity endure."

Published by the German Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio and other States.

Edited by C. F. W. Walther.

Volume 9.  St. Louis, Mo., 24 May 1853.  No. 20.

Terms: Der Lutheraner appears once every two weeks, at the yearly subscription price of One Dollar for out-of-town subscribers, who are to pay it in advance and bear the postage. - In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 Cents.

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of some manifest errors of Pastor Grabau, set forth in his own words and compared with the false Romish as well as with the pure Lutheran doctrine.

Doctrines of Pastor Grabau.

IV.

On Ordination.

27. "Ordination is no adiaphoron (indifferent matter), inasmuch as it is an essential part of the rite vocatum esse "(of the orderly call)," (Antikritik. See Hirtenbrief etc. p. 41.)

28. "Ordination itself is no adiaphoron and no unessential thing. It belongs to the commanded divine order and has divine and apostolic command." (The same.) "You cannot comprehend why I maintain that Christ the LORD began Christian ordination and that the Apostles expressly commanded it. - Have you not read John 20 and Matt. 28? Did not the LORD there command and enjoin the office upon His chosen Apostles? Was not this first ordination and command at the same time the institution of the office for all times and lands? . . Yea, He has even laid hands upon them, blessing them in giving such command to the office, (not as a commandment, but) as an example, Luke 21.*) He had already called them vocatione immediata, ever since He was baptized by John. . But the subsequent command: Go ye, etc., was the unlimited authorization for all churchly offices and acts, just as Christian ordination still is now." (The same, 59.)

*) That the LORD here laid hands upon the Apostles is asserted untruly. He only lifted up His hands in blessing. - Here Pst. Grabau himself outdoes the Romanists, who are so honest as to concede: "it is not written that the Apostles were ordained by Christ through the laying on of hands." (So writes

The Doctrine of the Romish Church.

IV.

On Ordination.

27. Thus writes the Council of Trent: "If any man say that the Ordo or holy ordination . . is any human contrivance, devised by men unversed in churchly matters, or that it is only a certain rite for choosing the ministers of the divine Word and of the Sacraments: let him be accursed!" (23rd Session, 4th Chap., 3rd Canon.)

28. Thus writes the Jesuit Cornelius a Lapide: "Christ ordained the Apostles as bishops, these again others, and so on; therefore Paul also was ordained by them, for the spiritual estate instituted by Christ requires that, since He Himself ordained Peter and the Apostles, all the rest be ordained by them or by their successors." (Christeis p. 597.)

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

IV.

On Ordination.

27. "The office of preaching has indeed a definite command and institution, John 20, but of ordination to the office one reads nothing of the kind; it has therefore always been reckoned among the adiaphora (indifferent matters) in the orthodox (right-believing) Church." (Balduin in his Exposition of the Epistles of St. Paul, on 1 Tim. 4, p. 1336.)

28. "Besides the fact that ordination, when one distinguishes it from the call, is an adiaphoron (yet one such as, although it has no command, nevertheless does not lack examples), that practice of ordination, as it is described by Bellarmine, is not even apostolic." (Kromayer Theol. posit. p. 1023.) "Although we freely concede that ordination is not absolutely and altogether necessary, nor rests upon divine command or is of divine right, but is of churchly right, yea, that it is an indifferent usage; and although we also do not believe that through it, ex opere operato, the gifts necessary for the office are imparted, yet we hold that this churchly order has been established for weighty reasons . . even if the same in the Pabst-