For it is a historical fact, that cannot be contested, that private confession, which is enjoined in the eleventh, twenty-fifth and twenty-eighth Articles of the Augsburg Confession, and was retained by Luther, Melancthon and their churches, was from the begining [sic] rejected by the _entire Lutheran Church in Sweden and Denmark_, as well as other places, and a public confession of the whole church, such as is now employed in Germany and this country, introduced in its stead.

See Siegel's Handbuch, Vol.

I., p.

200.
"Of course the accusation against the Augsburg Confession, involves an exhibition of Luther and Melancthon, those pillars of the Reformation, as teaching _heretical doctrines_, which are not in accordance with the word of God." p.4.This language we regard as not entirely correct.
Those errors alone are, in correct English, usually termed "heretical," which are of fundamental importance, and deny some doctrine that is necessary to salvation.

That this is neither affirmed or implied by the Platform, must, we think, be admitted by all.