Confessions

The Augsburg Confessionpresented at Augsburg, 1530

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Preface

  1. Preface to the Emperor

Part I. Chief Articles of Faith

  1. IOf God
  2. IIOf Original Sin
  3. IIIOf the Son of God
  4. IVOf Justification
  5. VOf the Ministry of the Church
  6. VIOf New Obedience
  7. VIIOf the Church
  8. VIIIWhat the Church Is
  9. IXOf Baptism
  10. XOf the Lord’s Supper
  11. XIOf Confession
  12. XIIOf Repentance
  13. XIIIOf the Use of Sacraments
  14. XIVOf Ecclesiastical Orders
  15. XVOf Ecclesiastical Rites
  16. XVIOf Civil Matters
  17. XVIIOf the Return of Christ to Judgment
  18. XVIIIOf Free Will
  19. XIXOf the Cause of Sin
  20. XXOf Faith and Good Works
  21. XXIOf the Worship of Saints
  22. Conclusion of the Chief Articles

Part II. Matters in Dispute: Abuses Which Have Been Corrected

  1. Articles in Which Are Reviewed the Abuses Which Have Been Corrected
  2. XXIIOf Both Kinds
  3. XXIIIOf the Marriage of Priests
  4. XXIVOf the Mass
  5. XXVOf Confession
  6. XXVIOf the Distinction of Meats and of Traditions
  7. XXVIIOf Monastic Vows
  8. XXVIIIOf Ecclesiastical Power

Conclusion

  1. Conclusion

Text: the Augsburg Confession in the English translation of Charles Porterfield Krauth, as printed in The Book of Concord, translated by Henry Eyster Jacobs (Philadelphia, 1911). This edition is in the public domain. Spelling and punctuation follow the printed book.