I, pp.

575-77.
_The Smalcald Articles_ were rejected by Sweden and Denmark.
_The Apology_ to the Augsburg Confession, was denied, official authority, by Sweden and Denmark.
_The Larger Catechism_ of Luther, in Sweden and Denmark.
Even _the Smaller Catechism_ of Luther was not received as symbolic in Sweden.

See Guericke's Symbolik, pp.

67, &c., 113.
Here, then, we perceive, that those ultra Lutherans of our day, who insist on the whole mass of former symbols as essential to Lutheranism, must unchurch a very large portion of the Lutheran Church even of the sixteenth century.

But among these we can by no means class the author of the Plea, who is evidently a Lutheran of the more enlightened and liberal class.
The author of the Plea represents "the Augsburg Confession, as the _unexceptionable_ password of the adherents of the Lutheran Church for three centuries." The idea designed probably is, that the _great mass_ of doctrines taught in this confession has been thus received.