The Apology of the Augsburg ConfessionMelanchthon, Philipp
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The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
Melanchthon, Philipp
Lutheran Church -- Catechisms
For the following dogmas
are clearly false, and foreign not only to Holy Scripture, but also
to the Church Fathers:-I. That from the divine covenant we merit
grace by good works wrought without grace.
II. That by attrition we merit grace.
III. That for the blotting out of sin the mere detestation of the
crime is sufficient.
IV. That on account of contrition, and not by faith in Christ, we
obtain remission of sins.
V. That the power of the keys avails for the remission of sins, not
before God, but before the Church.
VI. That by the power of the keys sins are not remitted before God,
but that the power of the keys has been instituted to commute eternal
to temporal punishments, to impose upon consciences certain
satisfactions, to institute new acts of worship, and to obligate
consciences to such satisfactions and acts of worship.
VII. That according to divine right the enumeration of offenses in
confession, concerning which the adversaries teach, is necessary.
VIII. That canonical satisfactions are necessary for redeeming the
punishment of purgatory, or they profit as a compensation for the
blotting out of guilt. For thus uninformed persons understand it.
[For, although in the schools satisfactions are made to apply only to
the punishment, everybody thinks that remission of guilt is thereby
merited.]
IX. That the reception of the sacrament of repentance _ex opere
operato_, without a good disposition on the part of the one using it,
i.e., without faith in Christ, obtains grace.
X. That by the power of the keys our souls are freed from purgatory
through indulgences
XI. That in the reservation of cases not only canonical punishment,
but the guilt also, ought to be reserved in reference to one who is
truly converted.
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