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V.<br />

THE CONFESSIONAL PRINCIPLE OF THE<br />

CONSERVATIVE REFORMATION. 138<br />

IN the statement of fundamental <strong>and</strong> unchangeable principles of Faith,<br />

which the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in<br />

America lays as the basis of its Constitution, it is declared:<br />

I. <strong>The</strong>re must be <strong>and</strong> abide through all time, one holy Christian<br />

Church, which is the assembly of all believers, among whom the Gospel<br />

is purely preached, <strong>and</strong> the Holy Sacraments are administered, as the<br />

Gospel dem<strong>and</strong>s.<br />

To the true unity of the Church, it is sufficient that there be<br />

agreement touching the doctrine of the Gospel, that it be preached in one<br />

accord, in its pure sense, <strong>and</strong> that the Sacraments be administered<br />

conformably to God's word.<br />

138 BLACKBURNE: <strong>The</strong> Confessional: Inquiry into the right, etc., of Confessions of Faith, etc. Lond. 1770.<br />

BüSCHING: Ub. d. Symbol. Schriften d. Evang. Luther. Kirche. Hamb. 1771.<br />

" Wenn und durch wen die Symbol. Schr. ausgel. werd. Berl. 1789. EBERHARD: Ist die Augsb. Confess. eine<br />

Glaubensvorschr., etc. 1795-97.<br />

HEUSINGER: Würdigung der S. B. n. d. jetz. Zeitbedürf. Leipz. 1799. FRITZSCHE: Uber. d. anveränd. Gelt. der<br />

Aug. Confess. Leipz. 1830. MARTENS: Die Symb. Büch. der Ev. Luth. Kirche. Halberst. 1830. JOHANNSEN:<br />

Untersuch der Rechtmässigk. d. Verpfl. a. S. B. Altona. 1833.<br />

HOFLING: De Symbolor. natur. necessit. auctor. atque usu. Erl. 1835. BRETSCHNEIDER: Die Unzulässigk. d.<br />

Symbolzwanges. Leipz. 1841. SARTORIUS: Nothwendigk. u. Verbindlichk. d. Kirch. Glaubensbekenntn.<br />

Stuttgart. 1845. (See Review by Dr. J. A. SEISS: Evang. Rev. July, 1852.)<br />

KOLLNER: Die gute Sache d. Luth. Symbole. Göttingen. 1847.

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