The Smalcald ArticlesLuther, 1537

Written by Luther for a church council that never met, to say what Lutherans could grant the Roman side and what they could not. With the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope.

The Articles

1. Preface of Dr. Martin Luther
2. Part One: The Chief Articles of the Divine Majesty
3. Part Two: The Office and Work of Jesus Christ
4. Part Three: Articles Concerning Which We May Treat
5. Subscriptions to the Smalcald Articles

Appendix: the Treatise

1. Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope
2. Treatise on the Power and Jurisdiction of Bishops
3. Subscriptions to the Augsburg Confession, the Apology and the Treatise

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.