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Word millions, who have lived <strong>and</strong> died unknown to the great world. In<br />

the humblest homes <strong>and</strong> humblest hearts it has opened, through ages, the<br />

spring of heavenly influence. It proclaimed the all-sufficiency of Christ's<br />

merits, the justifying power of faith in Him; <strong>and</strong> this shed heavenly light,<br />

peace <strong>and</strong> joy, on the darkest problems of the burdened heart. "It remains<br />

forever," says Gieseler, "a light to guide in the right path those who are<br />

struggling in error." It opened the way to the true unity of the Church<br />

of Christ; <strong>and</strong> if it has seemed to divide, for a little time, it has divided<br />

only to consolidate, at length, the whole Church under Christ's sole rule,<br />

<strong>and</strong> in the one pure faith.<br />

6. <strong>Its</strong> value for the future.<br />

<strong>Its</strong> history, in its full connections, is the history of the centuries<br />

midway in the fourth of which we st<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> the future of the Church,<br />

which is the future of the race, can unfold itself from the present, only in<br />

the power of the life which germinates from the great principles which<br />

the Augsburg Confession planted in the world.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Augsburg Confession as a Creed: what is involved in a right<br />

reception of it?*<br />

Can we honorably bear the name of Evangelical Lutherans, honestly<br />

profess to receive the Augsburg Confession as our Creed, <strong>and</strong> honestly<br />

claim to be part of the Church of our fathers, while we reject, or leave<br />

open to rejection, parts of the doctrine whose reception<br />

*Works on Dogmatics, <strong>and</strong> the history of Dogmatics, of value in the interpretation or defence of the Augsburg<br />

Confession, or in illustration of the theology based upon or deviating from it.<br />

MELANCHTHONIS: Opera Dogmatica in the Corpus Reformatorum, vol. xxi.xxiii. a. Loci <strong>The</strong>ologici<br />

(1521). b. Examen ordin<strong>and</strong>orum. c. Catechesis puerilis. d Explicatio Symboli Niceni. e. Repetitio Augustanae<br />

Confessionis. sive Confessio doctrinae Saxonicarum ecclesiarum. Cf. GALL;E: Melanchthon (1840) <strong>and</strong><br />

Augusti's, Edit. of the Loci (1821), for Melanchthon's changes in doctrine. - FLACCII: a. Catalogus Testium<br />

veritatis (1556). b. Centurise Magdeburgenses. c. Clavis. d. Scholia in N. Test. -CHEMNITZ: a. de vera et<br />

substantiali prsesentia. b. de duabus naturis. c. Loci <strong>The</strong>ologici. d. Examen Concil. Trident. i. <strong>The</strong>ologiae Jesuitic.<br />

praecipua capit. - HUTTER: Compendium Locor. <strong>The</strong>ologic (1610) ed. Schutze 1772. OSIANDERL: Enchiridion<br />

Controvers. (1614.)HUNNIUS N: Epitome Credendorum (1625).- GERHARD J: a. Loci <strong>The</strong>ologici (1610) (Cotta).<br />

b. Confessio Catholica (1633).- CALOVIJS: a. Apodixis (1684). b. Synopsis Controversiarum (1653). c.<br />

Mataeologia papistica (1647). d. Biblia Illustrata. - KOENIG: <strong>The</strong>ologia positiva (1664). -QUENSTEDT:<br />

<strong>The</strong>ologia didactico-polemica (1685). -- BECHMANN: Adnotationes in Compendium

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