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Lutheran Confessions
Lutheran confessions of the sixteenth century in public-domain English translations: the Augsburg Confession, the Smalcald Articles and Luther's Small Catechism.
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Concerning Christian Liberty — Martin LutherMartin Luther’s 1520 treatise on the freedom and the service of the Christian, preceded by his letter to Pope Leo X dated at Wittenberg on 6 September 1520, in the English translation of the Rev. R. S. Grignon as printed in the Harvard Classics in 1910.The Augsburg Confession — Philipp MelanchthonThe founding confession of the Lutheran churches, presented to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530: Melanchthon's twenty-one articles of faith and seven articles on abuses corrected, in the English translation of the 1921 Triglot Concordia.The Smalcald Articles — Martin LutherMartin Luther's articles of 1537, written for the general council summoned to Mantua and subscribed by the theologians at Smalcald: his preface, the three parts with every article, and the subscriptions, in the English translation of the 1921 Triglot Concordia.The Small Catechism — Martin LutherMartin Luther's Small Catechism of 1529, his short questions-and-answers on the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism, confession and the Lord's Supper for the head of a household to teach, in Robert E. Smith's modern English translation, which he placed in the public domain.