Still we have recently been denounced as unfaithful to the confession, by those unacquainted with the history of our church during the last five and thirty years.
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Shall we _adopt a new creed_, to supercede [sic] the venerable Augsburg Confession?
This is unnecessary, because the points regarded as erroneous in it, are confessedly few and non-essential.

When these are erased, the great mass of Christian truth remains intact, and not one of all the cardinal doctrines of the Reformation is affected.
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Shall we adopt and publish the entire Augsburg Confession, _with a list annexed to it, of those points believed by the majority to be erroneous_, providing that they may be rejected by all who do not believe them?
This would be a contradictory procedure, first to publish the whole, and then to reject a portion of it as not symbolic or binding.

If these supposed errors are not to be received, why perpetuate their memory, and afford to the enemies of our venerable church, a constant supply of material to fight against us, and render the church odious in the popular eye?
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