The Apology of the Augsburg ConfessionMelanchthon, 1531

Philip Melanchthon’s defence of the Augsburg Confession against the Roman Confutation, taken article by article. It is the fullest confessional treatment of justification by faith. Jacobs divides it into fourteen chapters, listed here with the Augsburg articles each answers.

Preface

1. Melanchthon’s Preface

The Apology

1. Chapter I: Of God, Original Sin and Christ (Articles I–III)
2. Chapter II: Of Justification (Articles IV, V, VI and XX)
3. Chapter III: Of Love and the Fulfilling of the Law (Article VI)
4. Chapter IV: Of the Church, Baptism, the Supper and Confession (Articles VII–XI)
5. Chapter V: Of Repentance (Article XII)
6. Chapter VI: Of Confession and Satisfaction
7. Chapter VII: Of the Number and Use of the Sacraments (Articles XIII and XIV)
8. Chapter VIII: Of Human Traditions in the Church (Articles XV–XX)
9. Chapter IX: Of the Invocation of Saints (Article XXI)
10. Chapter X: Of Both Kinds in the Lord’s Supper (Article XXII)
11. Chapter XI: Of the Marriage of Priests (Article XXIII)
12. Chapter XII: Of the Mass (Article XXIV)
13. Chapter XIII: Of Monastic Vows (Article XXVII)
14. Chapter XIV: Of Ecclesiastical Power (Article XXVIII)

Text: The Book of Concord, translated by Henry Eyster Jacobs (Philadelphia, 1911), public domain. The wording is Jacobs’s, not the modern Concordia text, so it will differ from the version you may know, and its section numbers are not printed here.