The Lord's Supper in the Theology of Martin Chemnitz Bjarne - Logia

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been consecrated, thereby proclaiming the Lord’s death (SD VII, 84).
Any other use made of a sacrament than the divinely mandated one
is a perversion of the Nihil rule derived from the Scripture. Besides
the misuse of the Lord’s Supper in the Corpus Christi festivals, the
Catholics have misused what they call baptism by baptizing bells, using
it for curing leprosy, etc. It is clear that the ordinance of Christ
prescribes that persons be baptized for the forgiveness of sins, life and
salvation.
340 In closing off this part of the explanation of the Nihil rule, the Solid
Declaration informs us that to avoid abuses this rule had been set
up at the beginning, and it has been explained by Luther in material
found in Jena IV 75 (SD VII, 87). The reference must be to the
Wolferinus correspondence, which consists of two letters written by
Luther to Simon Wolferinus, pastor at Eisleben, on July 4 and July
20, 1543. 76 Here is an example of Luther employing the axiom which is
being clarified, namely, that nothing has the character of a sacrament
outside the sacramental action.
341 The original Dresden edition of the Book of Concord, after the
reference to Luther, has in the text, “Tom IV, Jena,” but the page or
folio number is missing. The new Tappert version has, unfortunately,
dropped from the text itself the reference to Volume IV of the Jena
Edition. Tappert, however, has added as a footnote (#4) the following
reference to SD 87, “WA 30 II : 254, 255; cf. Smalcald Articles, pt III,
art 15, 4.” This note comes verbatim from the footnote 4 of the Goettingen
Edition of the Book of Concord, Die Bekenntnisschriften der
Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche, 5th ed., 1963, p. 1001. The Luther reference
there given is to Luther’s “Exhortation to all Clergy Assembled
at Augsburg, 1530” (LW 34, 9–61). But there are problems with this
identification that make it impossible to accept it. Luther’s “Exhortation”
is not found in either the German or Latin Volume IV of the
Jena Edition but rather in Volume V of the German Jena Edition.
The explicit page numbers in the Bekenntnis and Tappert editions
refer to Luther’s condemnation of the Roman abuse of the ordinance
of baptism, such as baptizing bells, altars, pictures, etc., and its introduction
of superstitious regulations, as for example, that only men
(no women) could wash the corporals used in connection with the
Eucharist, etc. The Smalcald reference is to Luther’s afterthought at
the end of the articles, stating that he does not wish to have anything