Reakce na Augustýnův výrok “Nevěřil bych evangeliu, kdyby mne k tomu nepobízela autorita církve.“
Originál: (en) We believe in God and in Christ, not in the Church. (…) I do not accord Augustine's word too much weight, because ultimately it is Christ I must believe in, and not Augustine. (…) It is much better to abandon Augustine than Christ.
Zdroj: [de Kroon, Marijn, We Believe in God and in Christ. Not in the Church: The Influence of Wessel Gansfort on Martin Bucer, https://books.google.cz/books?id=ObOQgL68k_UC&pg, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 2009, 101, 80-81, 0664232930, angličtina]
Martin Bucer nejznámější citáty
Originál: (en) How much more, then, is it necessary to see to it that all governors of commonwealths, when they realize that all their power is from God alone and that He has appointed them shepherds of his people, govern and guard those subject to them according to his judgment, and take care lest any one of those entrusted to them by God, their Maker, Father and Lord, should weaken in faith or abuse his laws or in any manner take away his honor from Him.
Zdroj: [Pauck, Wilhelm, Melanchton and Bucer, https://books.google.cz/books?id=HnOnD3_6UIgC&dq, Westminster John Knox Press, Philadelphia, 1969, 406, 189, 0664241646, angličtina]
Originál: (en) I would to God that every Holy-day whatsoever beside the Lord’s Day, were abolished. That zeal which brought them in, was without all warrant of the Word, and merely followed corrupt reason, forsooth to drive out the Holy days of the Pagans, as one nail drives out another. Those Holy days, have been so tainted with superstition that I wonder we tremble not at their very names.
Zdroj: [Ames, William, A Fresh Suit Against Human Ceremonies in God's Worship, https://books.google.cz/books?hl=cs&id=IqekWtq_u9MC&q, 1633, 761, 360, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Citizens are not governed for their good and for the true glory of the supreme King when the secular authorities do not rule according to the divine Law and are not set to observe it themselves. For where God is not recognized and obedience to Him is not required before all things, there peace is not peace, justice is not justice, and that which should be profitable brings injury instead.
Zdroj: [Bucer, Martin, Instruction in Christian Love, 1523, https://books.google.cz/books?id=kucWQF6Fru0C&dq, John Knox Press, Minnesota, 1952, 68, 35, angličtina]