id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 275 Melanchthon, Philipp The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530 .txt text/plain 14565 688 71 effected with God and a good conscience,--as also Your Imperial Majesty Article I: Of God. Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the no power, without the Holy Ghost, to work the righteousness of God, that First, that our works cannot reconcile God or merit forgiveness of sins, teaches Rom. 5, 1: Being justified by faith, we have peace with God. This whole doctrine is to be referred to that conflict of the terrified like traditions of men, are works profitable to merit grace, and able to because traditions were placed far above the commandments of God. Christianity was thought to consist wholly in the observance of certain observances of such men were more acceptable to God. Thirdly, traditions brought great danger to consciences; for it was service devised by men, without the commandment of God, and to teach ./cache/275.txt ./txt/275.txt