Held 1516.
Matth. 18, 18.
Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Where Christ had not given all his power to man, there would not be a perfect church, because therefore there would be no order, sinte-.
* Löscher I, 280; Erl. A. oxp. var. ars. 1, 110 sq.
D. Red.
Once every man would say that he was moved by the Holy Spirit. This is how the heretics did it; and in this way each one would establish his own principles, and there would be as many churches as there are heads. So it wants
Christ can exercise no power except through men, and so is given over to man, so that he may bring all into one. But this power he has so fortified that he has stirred up against it all the power of the world and of hell, as he says Matth. 16, 18: "The gates of hell shall not prevail against them"; as if he wanted to say: They will fight and be stirred up, but they shall not succumb, so that they will not be able to overcome them.
that this power is from God and not from men. Those who evade the unity and order of this power and authority boast in vain of their great enlightenments and special works, such as our Picards and other sectarians and schismatics. For obedience is better than the sacrifice of fools, for they know not what evil they do.