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gave our Church her separate being <strong>and</strong> distinctive name, <strong>and</strong> led to the<br />

formation of her Confession, <strong>and</strong> which are embodied in its articles, <strong>and</strong><br />

guarded in their condemnatory clauses, <strong>and</strong> which our whole Church, for<br />

centuries, in every official act, maintained as principal <strong>and</strong> fundamental?<br />

This is the real question. All others are side issues. This question, once<br />

agitated, can never be laid till it is fairly settled; <strong>and</strong> to it, every<br />

conscientious man, every lover of our Church, should bend his prayerful<br />

thoughts. A testimony bearing upon the great question, a testimony of<br />

the highest importance, <strong>and</strong> entitled to be heard first of all, is the<br />

CONFESSION itself, about whose claims so much is now said.<br />

In what light is the Augsburg Confession regarded in the Augsburg<br />

Confession itself? This is a primary question for an honest man who<br />

thinks of subscribing it: for if the Confession itself, in its origin, its history,<br />

its letter, protests against certain ideas, it would seem that its witness<br />

against them is of more value than any other. Look, then, at a few facts:<br />

I. <strong>The</strong> Confession exhibited the one, undivided faith of the entire<br />

Lutheran Church in the Empire. It was not the work of men without<br />

authority to represent the Church; but was<br />

Hutteri (1690).-BUDDEUS: a. <strong>The</strong>ologia Dogmatica (1723). b. De veritate religionis evangelicae (1729). c.<br />

Religions-Streitigkeiten 1724. d. Isagoge (1727). -SCHMID J. A.: Breviarium theolog. polemic. (1710).-LANGE:<br />

Oeconomiasalutis (1728).- REINHARD L. <strong>The</strong>ologia Dogmat. (1733). - WALCH J. G. a. Dogmatische<br />

Gottesgelahr. (1749). b. Polemische (1752). c. Religions-Streitigkeiten (1724).CARPOV. (1737). -<br />

BAUMIGARTEN S. J. a. Evangelische Glaubenslehre (1759). b. <strong>The</strong>ologisch. Streitigkeiten. (1762) c. Religions-<br />

Parteyen (1766). -MosI-IEIM: a. Streit-<strong>The</strong>ologie (1763). b. <strong>The</strong>olog. Dogmat. (1758). —CARPZOV J. B. Jr.<br />

Liber doctrinalis (1767). - WALCH C. W. F. a. Geschichte der Lutherischen Religion (1753). b.<br />

BibliothecaSymbolica (1770).- SEMLER: Institutio (1774). - DOEDERLEIN (1780).- SEILER: a. <strong>The</strong>olog.<br />

dogmat. polemica (1780). b. Doctrin. Christian. Compend. (1779).- MoRus: a. Epitome <strong>The</strong>ol. Christianae (1789).<br />

b. Commnentarius in Epitom. (1797).-BECK: (1801). - STOR & FLATT: Dogmatik (1803).- REINIARD F. V.<br />

(1801). - SCHOTT (1811).- BRETSCHNEDER: a. Dogmatik (1814). b. Entwickelung (1804).-WEGSCIEIDER:<br />

Institutiones (1815). -TWESTEN (1826).- KNAPP (1827).- NITZSCO (1829).- (Schuman): Melanchthon<br />

Redivivus, 1837. - HASE: a. Dogmatik (1826). b. Hutterus Redivivus (1829-1868). - KLEIN: (1822) Ed. LANGE<br />

(1835). SCHMID H. Dogmatik d. Evang. Luth. Kirche, (1843-1863). -MARTENSEN (1855).-SARTORIUS<br />

(1861). -THOMASIUS (1863). -PHILIPPI (1863). -HOMAN (1860).-KAHNIS (1868).LUTHARDT (1868).

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