The best plan by far in our judgment is to _retain the great body of the Confession unaltered, and simply to omit the few sentences inculcating the disputed or erroneous topics_.

The remainder is believed by all, and can be subscribed by all, whether they believe the omitted topics or not.
This is precisely the thing done by the American Recension of the Augsburg Confession.

_It's [sic] principle is to omit the disputed points and, retain unaltered the remainder, on which we all agree_.

On the three disputed points which alone are believed by any amongst us, namely, baptismal regeneration, the real presence of the Saviour in the eucharist, and the denial of the divine appointment of the Christian Sabbath, entire freedom is allowed.

As to the others, private confession and absolution, the ceremonies of the mass, and exorcism, which was taught not in the Augsburg Confession, but in the Appendix to Luther's Smaller Catechism,--they are not received by any one within the pale of the General Synod, and are so distinctly semi-Romish that they are prohibited by the Platform.