[2] Next, there is the German Mass and Divine Service, of which we are now treating. This ought to be set up for the sake of the simple laymen. Both these kinds of Service then we must have held and publicly celebrated in church for the people in general. They are not yet believers or Christians.But the greater part stand there and gape, simply to see something new: andit is just as if we held Divine Service in an open square or field amongstTurks or heathen. So far it is no question yet of a regularly fixed assemblywherein to train Christians according to the Gospel: but rather of a publicallurement to faith and Christianity.
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