American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics - Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann by S. S. (Samuel Simon) Schmucker
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about _ten lines at the close_.
Art. XIX. omits the _last sentence_. Art. XX. omits different portions of this long article, amounting to one-half of the whole. Art. XXI. omits all that is said on war, and the Turks, &c., and the entire concluding paragraph, amounting to half a page 12mo. Yet this work was circulated throughout the church, and we never heard a single word of objection, although the notes appended to it are far from being symbolic. Rev. J. A. Probst, in his work on the Reunion of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches, published in 1826, speaking of this country, and especially the Synod of Pennsylvania, of which he was a member, says, "Zwingle's more liberal, rational, and scriptural view of this doctrine, (election) as well as of the _Lord's Supper, has become the prevailing one among the Lutheran and Reformed_," p. 74. The same fact, the rejection of some of the articles of the Augsburg Confession, is taught in some publications in 1827, by _Dr. Endress_, one of our most respected and learned ministers; and is confirmed by the language of the resolution passed by the Synod of Pennsylvania in 1823, on the subject of union between the Lutheran and Reformed churches in this country, between which bodies they affirm a _unity of doctrinal views_. This dissent, was publicly avowed by Dr. _F. C. Schaeffer_, of New York, who, in his edition of Luther's Catechism, published in 1820, omitted the word "_real_ or _true_" in reference to the Saviour's body in the eucharist, (p. 21,) and in his Address at the Laying of the Corner-stone |
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