Simply Lutheran

The Council of Trent, of the Roman Catholic Church, was held in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 in Trento, Italy. It was convened by the opposition of the Reformation to deal with rascals of the likes of Martin Luther. The council defined and made very clear their Church's doctrines while at the same time supposedly strengthening the authority of the papacy. The pronouncements and anathemas (i.e. condemnations) of Trent were intended as a Counter-Reformation. The abominable 6th Session, which was held in 1547, dealing with the canon laws on Justification, is celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church every January 13th. Martin Chemnitz, the second Martin of the Reformation, wrote an extensive evaluation of the decrees of Trent. Kramer translated his works and Concordia Publishing House published the works in 4 volumes in 1971. Martin Chemnitz, examined this Canon Law on Justification and wrote, “in the Pauline epistles, especially those to the Romans and to the Galatians, in almost every verse we hear it said that a man is justified by faith, through faith, out of faith; faith is said to be imputed for righteousness. It is called ‘the righteousness by faith’ in Romans 4:11; ‘righteousness through faith’ in Romans 10:6; ‘righteousness in faith,’ or (what is more significant) ‘that depends on faith’ in Philippians 3:9; ‘the righteousness through faith for all who believe’ in Romans 3:22; ‘We have believed in Christ Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law’ in Galatians 2:16.” And then Chemnitz states, “Because these things are most manifest, the papalists cannot deny them. Therefore they seek various sophistical arguments in order that, although they cannot deny the words that teach justifying faith, they may nevertheless by weird explanations rob the churches of their true and comforting meaning.” (Examination of the Council of Trent, part 1, pp. 552-53.)...BTW As you can see, Martin Chemnitz, like Martin Luther, never said a word concerning any "Universal Objective Justification" prior to or without faith as C.F.W. Walther taught.