引用出处：http://steadfastlutherans.org/2012/08/aversion-to-sanctification/
“That is what my Antinomians, too, are doing today, who are preaching beautifully and (as I cannot but think) with real sincerity about Christ’s grace, about the forgiveness of sin and whatever else can be said about the doctrine of redemption. But they flee as if it were the very devil the consequence that they should tell the people about the third article, of sanctification, that is, of new life in Christ. They think one should not frighten or trouble the people, but rather always preach comfortingly about grace and the forgiveness of sins in Christ, and under no circumstance use these or similar words, “Listen! You want to be a Christian and at the same time remain an adulterer, a whoremonger, a drunken swine, arrogant, covetous, a usurer, envious, vindictive, malicious, etc.!” Instead they say, “Listen! Though you are an adulterer, a whoremonger, a miser, or other kind of sinner, if you but believe, you are saved, and you need not fear the law. Christ has fulfilled it all! . . . They may be fine Easter preachers, but they are very poor Pentecost preachers, for they do not preach… “about the sanctification by the Holy Spirit,” but solely about the redemption of Jesus Christ, although Christ (whom they extol so highly, and rightly so) is Christ, that is, He has purchased redemption from sin and death so that the Holy Spirit might transform us out of the old Adam into new men . . . Christ did not earn only gratia, grace, for us, but also donum, “the gift of the Holy Spirit,” so that we might have not only forgiveness of, but also cessation of, sin. Now he who does not abstain from sin, but persists in his evil life, must have a different Christ, that of the Antinomians; the real Christ is not there, even if all the angels would cry, “Christ! Christ!” He must be damned with this, his new Christ (On the Council and the Church, Luther’s Works, 41:113-114).
那就是我的反律主义者们今天在做的事，他们优美地，并（我不得不认为）满怀真诚地宣讲基督的恩典，罪得赦免以及任何其它与赎罪教义有关的事情。但他们逃避那个接下来的事情，就是他们应当将（使徒信经的）第三版块“成圣，”即在基督里的新生命教导给百姓，好像它就是魔鬼本身一样。他们认为不应该恐吓或扰乱人们，而是要一直令人安慰地传讲恩典和在基督里罪的赦免，在任何情况下都不应使用那些或与其类似的话语，“听着！你想做一个基督徒，与此同时继续做一个通奸者，一个嫖客，一个卑贱的醉鬼，傲慢，贪婪，一个放高利贷者，嫉妒，怀恨在心，心怀恶意，诸如此类！”相反他们说，“请听！尽管你是一个通奸者，一个嫖客，一个守财奴，或者其他类的罪人，只要你相信，你就得救了，你不用害怕律法。基督已经成全了全部律法！……他们也许是好的复活期传道者，但他们是非常差劲的五旬节期传道者，因为他们不传讲“藉着圣灵成圣”，而只讲耶稣基督的赎罪，尽管基督（他们如此正确地所极力高举的那位）就是基督，也就是说，祂为脱离罪和死亡的救赎付了代价，好叫圣灵能将我们从旧亚当转变为新人……基督不止为我们赚得了恩典(gratia)，也赚取了圣灵的恩赐(donum)，因此我们将不仅拥有罪的赦免，也有罪的中断。现在那不但不脱离罪，反而在他罪恶生活中坚持的人，一定有一个不同的基督，反律主义者的基督；真正的基督不在那里，即使所有天使高呼“基督！基督！”他必将和他这新基督一起被定罪。（论公会议和教会，路德文集41:113-114）
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Gary Liu 主后：2016.10.28