On Trade and Usury Author:Martin Luther Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCIENCE IN THEOLOGY.1 BY CARL HEINRICH CORNILL. ENTLEMEN :—Allow me to begin with the conscientious as- surance that I should have been heartily glad if I ... more »had been spared the necessity of speaking on this matter; but since the "Motion Against the Professors" has been made and opened for discussion, I may not, being the only professor of theology present,—I must not keep silence, for to do so would be, not evidence of a peaceable and conciliatory spirit, but cowardice and a denial of the station and calling in which God has placed me. Therefore I must speak, and prepare the way only by saying that as I belong to no faction or fraction of this synod, neither do I speak in the name or under commission of any fraction, but solely in my own name and that of my calling. To be sure, when I consider the letter of the motion before us, which refers to "appointment in evangelical-theological faculties of such professors only as stand within the confession of the Church," it might appear doubtful whether I really am called on to speak, for personally I do not feel that the letter of the motion touches me at all. Gentlemen, I stand within the Confession of the Church, this I can say unhesitatingly. For I stand firmly andclearly upon the foundation of the Apostles' Creed,—the Apostles' Creed without higgling and haggling, without distortion and subtilising. And in case this does not suffice, and you demand a more specific sectarian confession,—well and good, as a genuine old Huguenot, in my whole church feeling and consciousness I belong to the strict Reformed1 Confession. If there were in this synod a group of the Reformed Church, I should have felt constrained to ally myself with it, and should have done so as flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone. 1 By the courtesy of Dr. C. H. ...« less