The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran ChurchTheodore Gerhardt Tappert Confessional writings of the Lutheran Church and other information essential to understanding the confessions. |
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... consciences from an understanding of pure evangelical doctrine , and to make them more compliant in submitting to the papal yoke as well as in embracing other errors that militate against God's Word . We should have preferred , and we ...
... consciences from an understanding of pure evangelical doctrine , and to make them more compliant in submitting to the papal yoke as well as in embracing other errors that militate against God's Word . We should have preferred , and we ...
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... consciences . We also hope that from now on our adversaries will spare us and our churches and their ministers the onerous burden of their pretense that we are uncertain of our faith and for that reason allegedly make a new confession ...
... consciences . We also hope that from now on our adversaries will spare us and our churches and their ministers the onerous burden of their pretense that we are uncertain of our faith and for that reason allegedly make a new confession ...
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... consciences through the grace of the Holy Spirit , the most acute and urgent necessity demands that in the presence of so many intrusive errors , aggravated scandals , dissensions , and long- standing schisms a Christian explanation and ...
... consciences through the grace of the Holy Spirit , the most acute and urgent necessity demands that in the presence of so many intrusive errors , aggravated scandals , dissensions , and long- standing schisms a Christian explanation and ...
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... consciences may not be burdened by the notion that such things are necessary for salvation . Moreover it is taught that all 3 ordinances and traditions instituted by men for the purpose of pro- pitiating God and earning grace are ...
... consciences may not be burdened by the notion that such things are necessary for salvation . Moreover it is taught that all 3 ordinances and traditions instituted by men for the purpose of pro- pitiating God and earning grace are ...
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... consciences find by experience that it offers the greatest consolation because the consciences of men cannot be pacified by any work but only by faith when they are sure that for Christ's sake they have a gracious God . It is as Paul ...
... consciences find by experience that it offers the greatest consolation because the consciences of men cannot be pacified by any work but only by faith when they are sure that for Christ's sake they have a gracious God . It is as Paul ...
Contents
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APOLOGY OF THE AUGSBURG CONFESSION | 97 |
THE SMALCALD ARTICLES | 287 |
TREATISE ON THE POWER AND PRIMACY OF THE POPE | 319 |
THE SMALL CATECHISM | 337 |
THE LARGE CATECHISM | 357 |
FORMULA OF CONCORD | 463 |
BIBLICAL REFERENCES | 637 |
GENERAL INDEX | 649 |
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Page 345 - I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth : " And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord ; Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary...
Page 18 - I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made...
Page 355 - Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
Page 351 - Take, eat, this is my body which is given for you : do this in remembrance of me.
Page 85 - I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth...
Page 254 - But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.
Page 42 - For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God — not because of works, lest any man should boast.
Page 144 - Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord : "though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Page 533 - For I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members.