Article VIIOf the Church

1 p. 39 Also they teach, that One holy Church is to continue for ever. (The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments rightly administered. 2 And to the true unity of the Church, it is enough to agree concerning the doctrine of the Gospel and the administration of the Sacraments. 3 (Nor is it necessary that human traditions, rites, or ceremonies, instituted by men, should be everywhere alike. As Paul says: 4 “One faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,” etc. [Eph. 4:5, 6].)

Krauth’s translation, from Jacobs, The Book of Concord (1911), public domain. The small “p.” numbers link to the printed page.