Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ill, and that, therefore, you were baptised andreceived the Holy Supper, and do you not expect ever-lasting life? Yes, they say, we also believe , that you may determine whether you actually be-lieve this, I ask further: Why, then, do you teach thatwe adults have long since lost our baptism, and every onemust now do penance for his sins, and be saved by goodworks ? and how is it that you now preach and writethat Christ made satisfaction and died only for OriginalSin, while we must see to it that we do pena
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . ill, and that, therefore, you were baptised andreceived the Holy Supper, and do you not expect ever-lasting life? Yes, they say, we also believe , that you may determine whether you actually be-lieve this, I ask further: Why, then, do you teach thatwe adults have long since lost our baptism, and every onemust now do penance for his sins, and be saved by goodworks ? and how is it that you now preach and writethat Christ made satisfaction and died only for OriginalSin, while we must see to it that we do penance for ouractual sins ? Notice only how they lead the peopleaway from Christ to their own works. . Thusthey make of Christ nothing but a strict and wrathfuljudge, before whom we are to tremble, as though Hewould cast us into Hell; as He has been painted as sittingin judgment upon a rainbow, with His mother Mary andJohn the Baptist, one on each side, as is to entirely abolish Christ, so as to prevent me Against the Anabaptists (1528), Erlangen, 26 : LUTHER. FROM MELANCHTHOnS FUNERAL ORATION ON LUTHER, 1546. 1546] Luthers Theology 383 from seeing that He was born, suffered, died, and roseagain for me. . When I thus see Him, I cannotrun to Him, but must flee from Him and take refugewith Mary and other saints instead of with Christ andHis redemption. Such are the people who want to becalled the Christian Church. To these marks, whereby the presence of a trueChurch may be recognised, he adds the exercise ofthe Power of the Keys, both publicly and privately;the existence of a ministry for the administration ofthe means of grace, which the whole body can em-ploy only through appointed organs; and the cross,or the persecutions and trials of all kinds that arethe lot of those who follow Christ. The unity of the Church, therefore, is found onlyin agreement of its members in the confession andteaching of the same faith of the Gospel. The Word and doctrine should e
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