Specimen and Sketch (Duckworth) n. 27

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27. (27) From the faith of the church of today monstrous offspring have been born and still can be born, such as salvation by immediate mercy, necessity and lack of freedom in spiritual things, that man is like a stock and stone as to his conversion, that there is no bond between faith and charity, that there is predestination, and, as some people think today, that God takes no notice of what man does but of faith only; and many other things as well. Also concerning the sacraments, Baptism and the Eucharist, and also Christ's person - teachings that have been drawn from justification by faith according to the principles of reason. From the first centuries to the present day the heresies that have sprung up have no other origin than that faith.


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