American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics - Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker
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limitations connected with them, and falsely imputing sinister motives
to almost every sentence, it in possible to make the most correct author contradict himself and misrepresent his subject; but with such men, whether their misrepresentations arise from deliberate design or inveterate general habit, we cannot consent to debate. The injury done is rather to the cause of Christ and of truth than ourselves, and we can well afford to commit the case for adjudication to that Omniscient Being, "who judgeth righteously." Note 1. See Luther's Works, Leipsic ed., Vol. xxi, pp. 447, 448. Note 2. See Luther's letter to Prince George in his Works, Vol. xxi., p. 430. Note 3. Vol. iii., p. 114. Note 4. See Murdock, Edition of Moshiem's History, Vol. iii, page 53, Harper's edition. Note 5. Fuhrmann's Lexicon, Vol. iii., p. 3. Note 6. Siegel's Manual, Vol. iii., p. 362. Note 7. Ibid, p. 366. Note 8. Ibid, p. 375. Note 9. Luther's Works, Vol. xxii., p. 233-37. Note 10. Ibid, p. 237. |
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