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The Lutheran Church—founded by and taking its name from Dr. Martin Luther—is not a new church. It is an ancient church, restored and renewed by Luther’s 95 Theses. The Distinctive Characteristics of the Lutheran Church calls from the marvelous heritage of the Lutheran Church and lays out—in elegant concisiveness—its theological distinctiveness. Marrying historical interpretations to biblical...

as was stated above, is not of Biblical origin, and we cannot, therefore, accuse another church of false doctrine for differing with us on the definition and number of the Sacraments, yet we would certainly not be willing to depart from our position on this subject, because these two ordinances, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, occupy a unique position in God’s economy of grace and should therefore not be thrown together with other ordinances, whether of divine or human origin, which fall into an altogether
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