The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran ChurchTheodore Gerhardt Tappert Confessional writings of the Lutheran Church and other information essential to understanding the confessions. |
Contents
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APOLOGY OF THE AUGSBURG CONFESSION | 97 |
THE SMALCALD ARTICLES | 287 |
TREATISE ON THE POWER AND PRIMACY OF THE POPE | 319 |
THE SMALL CATECHISM | 337 |
THE LARGE CATECHISM | 357 |
FORMULA OF CONCORD | 463 |
BIBLICAL REFERENCES | 637 |
GENERAL INDEX | 649 |
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Page 18 - I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made...
Page 42 - For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God — not because of works, lest any man should boast.