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 1    1|       others. As~regards this external observance, this commandment
 2    1|    were fulfilled by doing no external [manual] work whatever,
 3    1|       for it is altogether an external matter, like~other ordinances
 4    1|    the stove and do no rough~[external] work, or deck ourselves
 5    1|   thereby, not because of the external work, but because of~the
 6    1|       persons, and the~entire external order of worship have been
 7    1|   called; and not only is the~external act forbidden, but also
 8    1|      had done or not done the external act. Therefore God~has added
 9    3|     were no~prayers. For such external matters, when they are properly
10    3|    Lord's~Supper appointed as external signs, effect, so much also
11    4|  clamoring that Baptism is an external thing, and~that external
12    4|      external thing, and~that external things are of no benefit.
13    4|     let it be ever so much an~external thing here stand God's Word
14    4|   that the Sacraments and all external things~which God ordains
15    4|      according to~the coarse, external mask, as we regard the shell
16    4|     saves,~and that works and external things avail nothing, we
17    4|       and proposes to us this~external thing wherein we may apprehend
18    4|  bound though it be something external. Yea, it shall and~must
19    4|   shall and~must be something external, that it may be apprehended
20    4|       the~entire Gospel is an external, verbal preaching. In short,
21    4| proposes to work through such external ordinances.~Wherever, therefore,
22    4|      though it be an~entirely external thing like the commandment,
23    5|        etc., may indeed be an~external preparation and discipline