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II. The Schwabach Articles.
In an ampler form the same doctrine presents itself in the Schwabach
Articles. These seventeen Articles are also from the hand of Luther. They
are largely an elaboration of the Marburg Articles, and are the direct
groundwork of the doctrinal articles of the Augsburg Confession. The
fourth runs thus: "That original sin is a true, real sin, and not merely a
weakness or defect, but such a sin as would condemn al] men who spring
from Adam, and would separate us from God forever, if Jesus Christ had
not interceded for us, and taken upon himself this sin, with all other sine
which follow therefrom, and by his suffering made satisfaction therefor, and
thus utterly taken them away, and blotted them out in himself, as in Psalm
li. and Rom. v. is clearly written of this sin." 239
III. The Article in the Augsburg Confession.
In the Latin and German texts of the earliest authorized Edition of
each, we have as follows, the
ARTICLE ON ORIGINAL SIN.
Literal Translation of the Literal Translation of the
Latin. 240 German. 241
II. The Second.
Also they teach, that after Further is taught, (I) that
Adams fall, all men begotten after the fall of Adam, (II) all
after the common course of men who are born naturally, are
nature are born with sin; that conceived and born in sins,
is without the fear of God, that is, that they all from the
without trust in God, and with mother’s womb, are full of evil
239 Corpus Reformat. xxvi. 153. Compared with the Latin in Pfaff. L. S. Appendix 4. Luther's Werke Walch: xx. 1-
3. Chytraei: Hist. (1576) 19; Do,Lat. (1578) 21; J. J. Müller's Histor. 442. Coelestinus: i. 25. Scultetus: Annal.
240 For the Latin here translated, the writer has before him the original Wittenberg Edition of 1530-1531. He has
compared it word for word with the text of the Book of Concord (Müller's ed.), and finds that they do not differ in a
word or a letter.
241 For the German we have translated from the original Editio Princeps of Melanchthon,the Wittenberg 4to. 1530,
1531.