# Der Lutheraner_St. Louis Missouri_1854 01 03_S73
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Der Lutheraner.

"God's Word and Luther's doctrine pass away now and nevermore."

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

Edited by C. F. W. Walther.

Volume 10.  St. Louis, Mo., January 3, 1854.  No. 10.

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 the same in advance and bear the postage. – In St. Louis each single number is sold for 5 cents.

Only those letters which contain communications for the paper are to be sent to the Editor; all others, which contain business matters, orders, cancellations, money, etc., are to be sent hither under the address Mr. F. W. Barthel, care of C. F. W. Walther, St. Louis, Mo.

Jesuitism.

(Continuation.)

Before we conclude the Jesuits' own testimonies concerning their moral principles, we wish to give a little gleaning of such as, for the sake of completeness, still remain to be supplied, which show, namely, what influence their morality has also upon their dogmatics (doctrine of faith).

Thus writes Gabriel Vasquez, who died as a professor at Alcala in Spain in the year 1604: "Among Catholics it is a truth not to be doubted that the relics of the saints, whether they be pieces of the same, such as bones, flesh and ashes, or other things which have touched them or belong to them, are to be worshiped (adorandas) and thus to be venerated." (Comment. in Thom. th. III. quaest. 25. disp. 112. c. 11). Vasquez adds in this passage, moreover, that therefore also "the girdles and sweat-cloths of Paul are to be venerated by the cultus of worship (cultu adorationis)."—It is accordingly a lie, when the Romanists seek thereby to justify themselves against the charge of gross idolatry and image-worship, by asserting that in their Church only veneration of the creatures is tolerated, not worship, only Cultus, not Adoratio, only Proskynesis, not Latria.

V. Filliucius: "Are the feasts of the blessed Virgin rightly celebrated by the Church? I answer in the affirmative, and indeed Suarez, Cap. 8. n. 1., teaches this as a matter which certainly belongs to the faith. And rightly so; because it is an article of faith that she is to be worshiped (adorandam). Hence in the Tridentine Decree on relics and on the veneration of the saints (Sess. 25.) the worship of the Mother of God is first of all taught." (Tract. 27. in 3. praecept. decal. c. 4. n. 48.)

Adam Tanner, of Inspruck, last at Ingolstadt, died 1632, writes: "It is to be confessed without hesitation that images are not only to be honored and venerated, but also to be worshiped, according to the true meaning of this word." (2. Thom. disp. 4. thes. 48.) Tanner's esteemed colleague Grether, who together with him disputed with the Lutherans at Regensburg in 1601 and there, as is well known, established as an article of faith that the dog of Tobias wagged his tail, defends even the invocation of the tablecloth on which the Lord ate the Paschal lamb: "Sanctissima Dei mappa, ora pro nobis," that is, "O most holy tablecloth of God, pray for us!" (See Tom. III. de cruce l. 3. c. 3.)

Gumpenberg, from Bavaria, penitentiary of the Pope, died 1675, writes: "It happened that the world marveled in the days of Jerome that it had become Arian; I will bring it about, if Thou, O Lady (Mary), guidest my pen, that the world shall marvel to have become Marian." (Atlantis Marian. dedicat. ad Virg.) Thus not Christian, but Marian will the wretched Jesuit make the world. Not in Christ's but in Mary's service will he stand. Jesus he has renounced, although to deceive Christians he calls himself after Him. But neither are you rogues servants of Mary, this holy Mother of God, but of the devil; to him you give the blessed name of the humble, gracious Virgin, as the idolatrous Israelites gave the golden calf the name: the LORD, that brought us up out of Egypt. Mary hates your shameful idolatry and counts the honor which you allegedly render her as her most horrible disgrace.

Cornelius a Lapide, a native of the diocese of Liège, died at Rome in 1637, writes: "To be the Mother of God is, in a certain manner, higher than to be God." (Commentar. ad Prov. c. 31. v. 29.)

Ferd. Quirin. de Salazar, died at Madrid in 1646, writes: "The Virgin (Mary) was of this Sacrament (of the Holy Supper)