ART. XI. _Of Confession:_ omitted, as private confession and
absolution" [sic on punctuation] are confessedly not taught
in Scripture.
ART. XII _Of Repentance (after Backsliding:) entire_, except the
omission of "the church's granting _absolution_ to those manifesting
repentance," and that faith is produced also "_by means absolution_."
ART. XIII. _Of the Use of the Sacraments. entire_.
ART. XIV. _Of Church Orders, (or the Ministry.) entire_.
ART. XV. _Of Religious Ceremonies. entire_.
ART. XVI. _Of Political Affairs;_ (excepting the word "imperial.")
_entire_.
ART. XVII. _Of Christ's Return to Judgment. entire_.
ART. XVIII. _Of Free Will. entire_.
ART. XIX. _Of the Author of Sin. entire_.
ART. XX. _Of God's Works. entire_.
ART. XXI. _Of the Invocation of the Saints_, (except a reference to
the authority of the Romish church, the canons and the fathers.)
_entire_.
Note 1. See Luther's Works, Vol. XXI., p. 34, Leipsic ed. See this
subject ably discussed in several articles in the Evangelical Lutheran,
of December, 1835, by Dr. S. Sprecher, President of Wittenberg
College, Ohio.
Note 2. Koellner's Symbolik, Vol. I., p. 121.
Note 3. Idem. p. 148.
Note 4. P. 344.
Note 5. Hagenbach's Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries, Vol. II., p. 358; also Hahn's Lehrbuch, 1828, p. 578.
Note 6.
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