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Matthias Loy was born on March 17, 1828 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, of German parentage, the fourth of the seven children of Matthias and Christina (Reaver) Loy. He had a bleak, poverty-pinched boyhood.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...spurious imitations of the good works which the law requires, but that this proves nothing against the justifying efficacy of the genuine good works done by those who are in Christ Jesus. In reply to this it is sufficient to remind Christians that, when they are in Christ Jesus and thus justified by faith. they have no need of any other or any further justification before God, and that they would only be entrapped by the wiles of the devil if they yielded to the sophistries which are calculated to disturb their peace in the believing possession by faith of the only righteousness which avails before God. All works of man are excluded, that there may be no boasting of his ability or prowess or merit, but all the glory of our salvation may be given to the Savior, who loved us and gave Himself for us. "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God. which is by faith of Christ Jesus, unto all and upon all them that believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past. through the forbearance of God: to declare, I say. at this time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith...
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The doctrine of justification, the "chief article of the Christian faith," is of paramount importance in the Christian life. This teaching was at the heart of the sixteenth century Reformation, and remains so in the contemporary church of the Augsburg Confession. When many today are seeking to downplay the importance of this teaching in the Pauline corpus and the proclamation of the church, traditional Lutheran evaluations of the great doctrine of justification are needed today more than ever. In this volume, Matthias Loy outlines the doctrine of justification in its traditional Reformation formulation. Loy writes in the traditional of Lutheran scholasticism, though his work is not dry or purely academic, but immensely practical. Loy is concerned with the faith and assurance of the average Christian. He discusses the nature of justification, the means of justification, and the effects of justification in the Christian life.
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Matthias Loy was born on March 17, 1828 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, of German parentage, the fourth of the seven children of Matthias and Christina (Reaver) Loy. He had a bleak, poverty-pinched boyhood.
Loy was apprenticed in 1847 to the printing firm of Baab & Hummel at Harrisburg, was treated well by his masters, read several of the English classics, learned the rudiments of Latin and Greek at the Harrisburg Academy, was confirmed by the Reverend Charles William Schaeffer, and began to think of a ministerial career. In 1847 he went west for his health and at Circleville, Ohio, was persuaded by the Reverend J. Roof to become a beneficiary student in the seminary (later part of Capital University) of the Joint Synod of Ohio at Columbus, where he had Christian Spielmann and Wilhelm Friedrich Lehmann as his teachers. He was influenced strongly by the writings of C. F. W. Walther and by several friends among the clergy of the Missouri Synod.
Loy served as a pastor at Delaware, Ohio, 1849-1865. Frail of body and often ill, Loy had a strong mind and a great capacity for work. As president of the Joint Synod 1860-1878 and 1880-1894, editor of the Lutheran Standard 1864-1891, professor of theology in Capital University, 1865-1902, and president of the University, 1881-1890, he dominated the Synod, which grew during his lifetime into an organization of national scope.
In 1867 he refused to let the Joint Synod become a member of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America and framed the questions about the "four points"--chiliasm, altar fellowship, pulpit fellowship, membership in secret societies--that afflicted so sorely the spokesmen of the General Council. In 1871, however, he carried the Joint Synod into the Synodical Conference. Ten years later he rejected Walther's doctrine of predestination, founded and edited the Columbus Theological Magazine (1881 - 1888) to combat it, and of course withdrew the Joint Synod from the Synodical Conference. In 1902 an attack of angina pectoris compelled him to retire, but for eight years more he continued to write and to take pleasure in his garden, before softening of the brain set in.
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Loy was a zealous student of the Lutheran confessions but had little knowledge of Biblical criticism or appreciation of its implications. He was a truculent controversialist, never forgetting that the Church Visible is also the Church Militant, and never giving his opponents time to forget it.
On December 25, 1853, Loy married Mary Willey of Delaware, who with five of their seven children survived him.