Book of Concord source text
- Document
- Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration
- Article/chapter
- Erroneous Articles of the Schwenckfeldians
- Source pages
- 604-605
- Numbered paragraphs
- 8
- Source status
- public-domain / publicly licensed source text
Erroneous Articles of the Schwenckfeldians.
28]Likewise, when the Schwenckfeldians assert:
29]1. First, that all those have no knowledge of the reigning King of heaven, Christ, who regard Christ according to the flesh, or His assumed humanity, as a creature, and that the flesh of Christ has by exaltation so assumed all divine properties that in might, power, majesty, and glory He is in every respect, in degree and position of essence, equal to the Father and the eternal Word, so that there is the same essence, properties, will, and glory of both natures in Christ, and that the flesh of Christ belongs to the essence of the Holy Trinity.
30]2. That the ministry of the Church, the Word preached and heard, is not a means whereby God the Holy Ghost teaches men, and works in them saving knowledge of Christ, conversion, repentance, faith, and new obedience.
31]3. That the water of Baptism is not a means by which God the Lord seals adoption and works regeneration.
32]4. That bread and wine in the Holy Supper are not means by which Christ distributes His body and blood.
33]5. That a Christian man who is truly regenerated by God’s Spirit can in this life keep and fulfil the Law of God perfectly.
34]6. That a congregation in which no public excommunication or regular process of the ban is observed, is no true Christian congregation [church].
35]7. That the minister of the Church who is not on his part truly renewed, righteous, and godly cannot teach other men with profit or administer real, true sacraments.
