Gerhard and Walther

We sin every day. That is why it is necessary to pray for the forgiveness of sins every day. We daily receive God’s blessings, indeed hourly and with every blink of the eye. That’s why it is right and proper that we also thank God the Lord for them—indeed hourly and with every blink of the eye.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis III:345.

All of these miraculous gifts had a purpose: to confirm and seal the new revelation before the world in a divine way… It is not surprising that such miraculous gifts are no longer found in the Church. The New Testament has been divinely sealed.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 646