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RT. XIII. Of the Use of the Sacraments. entire.

ART. XIV. Of Church Orders, (or the Ministry.) entire.

ART. XV. Of Religious Ceremonies. entire.

ART. XVI. Of Political Affairs; (excepting the word "imperial.") entire.

ART. XVII. Of Christ's Return to Judgment. entire.

ART. XVIII. Of Free Will. entire.

ART. XIX. Of the Author of Sin. entire.

ART. XX. Of God's Works. entire.

ART. XXI. Of the Invocation of the Saints, (except a reference to the authority of the Romish church, the canons and the fathers.) entire.

Note 1. See Luther's Works, Vol. XXI., p. 34, Leipsic ed. See this subject ably discussed in several articles in the Evangelical Lutheran, of December, 1835, by Dr. S. Sprecher, President of Wittenberg College, Ohio.

Note 2. Koellner's Symbolik, Vol. I., p. 121.

Note 3. Idem. p. 148.

Note 4. P. 344.

Note 5. Hagenbach's Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Vol. II., p. 358; also Hahn's Lehrbuch, 1828, p. 578.

Note 6. See Knapp's Theology, translated by L. Woods, Jr., page 513,1 (Glauben's Lehre, &c., 1827,) or German copy, Vol. II., p. 505.

CHAPTER V.

SYNODICAL DISCLAIMER, _or List of Symbolic Errors rejected by the great body of the churches belonging to the General Synod_.

Having now arrived at the second part of the Definite Synodical Platform, namely, that part which is not to be subscribed to by the members of Synod; but which is published as the view of the majority, from which individuals are allowed to dissent; we shall pursue the following order in regard to each topic:

1. We shall recapitulate, briefly, what the Platform does assert.

2. State the objections made to these positions by the plea of Rev. Mr. Mann.

3. Examine these objections and vindicate what seems to be the truth. And as the Rev. M

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