Creeds and Confessions
The Augsburg Confession
Philip Melanchthon · 1530
The Lutheran confession of faith presented to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg: twenty-one articles of doctrine and seven on abuses corrected.
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Contents
Chief Articles of Faith21 pages
- Article I. Of God
- Article II. Of Original Sin
- Article III. Of the Son of God
- Article IV. Of Justification
- Article V. Of the Ministry
- Article VI. Of New Obedience
- Article VII. Of the Church
- Article VIII. What the Church Is
- Article IX. Of Baptism
- Article X. Of the Lord's Supper
- Article XI. Of Confession
- Article XII. Of Repentance
- Article XIII. Of the Use of the Sacraments
- Article XIV. Of Ecclesiastical Order
- Article XV. Of Ecclesiastical Usages
- Article XVI. Of Civil Affairs
- Article XVII. Of Christ's Return to Judgment
- Article XVIII. Of Free Will
- Article XIX. Of the Cause of Sin
- Article XX. Of Good Works
- Article XXI. Of the Worship of the Saints
Articles in Which Are Reviewed the Abuses Which Have Been Corrected9 pages
Philip Melanchthon, The Augsburg Confession (1530), in the translation of the Triglot Concordia (1921). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #275).