Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Introductory Essay.
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ment of the Confession of Augsburg, as a sound
confession of faith. This (which some might
feel, who would not feel other grounds) would
be a reversal of the deliberate judgment of the
framers of our Articles, who, while employing
in parts the Confession of Augsburg, carefully
and repeatedly excluded the Lutheran doctrine
of justification, viz.,
CHEIST S sake those that believe that they
themselves are received into the grace
of
CHRIST." It would also either commit us to
"that GOD justifies for
other Lutheran errors, or to an indifference to
error. One Danish writer wishes that "from
the English side there had been a clearer state
But
ment as to what is i common Christianity."
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he assumes two : things
1,
that the essential
difference is recognised between the Apostles
Creed as comprising the Christian s faith and
the two other (Ecumenical Symbols which more
closely define the Church s doctrines on special
;" points 2, that the Church of "
England does
not ascribe a fundamental meaning to ordina
tion." As to the first, the Lutherans professed
formerly to receive the three Creeds. This pro
posal holds that the Apostles Creed alone, in
contrast with the Nicene and Athanasian, and
so not understood in their sense, comprises the
Christian s faith ; 2, We are, as a preliminary
to union to be indifferent to the Episcopal suc
cession.