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Updated: June 25, 2025

God therefore instituted two regimens, or governments-the spiritual, which, through the Holy Ghost under Christ, makes Christians and pious people, and the worldly or temporal, which warns the non-Christians and the wicked that they must maintain external peace.

W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau - Luther Examined and Reexamined: A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation