The Lonely Way Quotes

“This order, the presbyterial and synodical constitution, which he felt obliged to read out of the NT, is, so far as the Reformed Church is concerned, instituted by God’s command as sacra et inviolable (“holy and inviolable”). In this sense the French Reformed of Old Prussia declared in 1930: “For us Reformed, a discussion about the correctness and applicability of this church constitution is … just as much out of the question as say a discussion on the dogma of the Trinity or the doctrine of Holy Communion or the Sacraments is for other Christians. For us the question of the constitution is a confessional question.”
― Hermann Sasse, The Lonely Way: Selected Essays and Letters, Volume 1

“According to Article XIV of the Augustana, it matters greatly who exercises the preaching office, namely, whether the person in question is legitimately called (rite vocatus) according to correct ecclesiastical order. Luther also knew that the call (vocatio) causes the devil a great deal of woe.”
― Hermann Sasse, The Lonely Way: Selected Essays and Letters, Volume 1