BWC2h: Actual sins, crying sins; full download v. 2

      This continues from Part BWC2g in a series (Table of Contents in Part BWC1) presenting Walther's edition of Baier's Compendium of Positive Theology. —  From pages 308–330.

Notable Quotes: (Italics follow the original. All quotes not from Baier are from Walther's additions.)

Actual Sins:

309: Gerhard: "but when they cover their neighbor's nakedness, help them, etc., these acts in themselves and by their nature are not sins, but they become sins because of something else: because the person is not yet reconciled to God… they are not directed toward the glory of God."

311: Luther: "For this is the tendency of our nature: in sudden terrors and dangers, it turns away from the true God, because it believes He is angry, ……For God is not cruel, but is the Father of consolation"

312: "men of their own accord consent to the deceiver"

315: Luther: "But that some weak people [restricting what is free] also get angry about this is not our fault, but the fault of the tyrants who prevent the Gospel from reaching them and teaching the weak"

320-321: Hollaz: "A sin against conscience is fourfold…against a right conscience,…against an erring conscience,…against a probable conscience,…against a doubtful conscience,…the matter [of doubtful] must always be settled either by his own prudence or by the counsel of wiser others"

323: Balduin: "actual sin, of the kind that usually accompanies original sin,…should not be denied to be present in infants, even though they are unaware of it."

323: Quenstedt: "Antithesis: 1. Of the Papists, as Bellarmine and others, who deny to infants all actual sin, even that of omission."

323: Actual sins "directed at the person of the sinner himself.…For example, fornication (through which a person is said to sin against his own body, 1 Cor. 6:18… drunkenness…suicide (in which one is injurious and violent to one's own life itself)"

325: The Papist's "remedies prescribed for them [venial (lesser) sins], however, are the formation of the cross, the beating of the breast, the sprinkling of holy water, the episcopal or even priestly and monastic blessing, the use of the Eucharist, the Lord's Prayer, and whatever other prayers there may be"

325-327: "crying [sins], or those which, even when men are silent, are wont to move God to public vengeance …Such are principally four that are numbered: homicide, Gen. 4:10; sodomy, or a lust most alien to human nature, Gen. 18:20; the oppression of the innocent, e.g., of subjects by tyrants, Ecclus. 3:7…"

328: Huelsemann: "The sin against the Holy Spirit is committed by enlightened men, who are convinced of the truth of the faith and of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit."

  The following is my translated version utilizing DeepL, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok. Highlighting and red text are mine. Italics follow the original. Hyperlinks added to each page which follow the original publication:

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In the next Part BWC3a we begin presenting Volume III.