15 November 2008

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

We must not determine the status of our faith on the basis of of our feeling of comfort or spiritual joy. -- Blessed Martin Chemnitz, *Justification* p. 106

6 comments:

Anastasia Theodoridis said...

Very good. So how do you determine it?

William Weedon said...

2 Peter 1:5-9! Living faith produces love; a faith that does not issue forth in love is but a dead faith that saves not a soul.

Anastasia Theodoridis said...

Excellent.

"add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love."

In other words, good works, yes?

William Weedon said...

Yes indeed, the fruits of faith. What I particularly love is that St. Peter tells us that if these qualities are absent, then the problem is that we've forgotten that we've been cleansed from our sin.

LPC said...

Pr. Will,

Thanks for this quote.

I needed that, my Pentecostality sometimes creeps in an needs a corrective.


LPC

William Weedon said...

Lito,

I think when old Luther wrote that we're all enthusiasts by nature he acknowledged that we're all pentecostals in our hearts - we natively rely on those feelings.