Book of Concord source text
- Document
- Augsburg Confession
- Article/chapter
- Article V: Of the Ministry
- Source pages
- 20
- Numbered paragraphs
- 4
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- public-domain / publicly licensed source text
Article V: Of the Ministry.
1]That we may obtain this faith, the Ministry of Teaching the Gospel and administering the Sacraments was instituted. For through the Word and Sacraments, as through instruments,
2]the Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it pleases God, in them that hear
3]the Gospel, to wit, that God, not for our own merits, but for Christ’s sake, justifies those who believe that they are received into grace for Christ’s sake.
4]They condemn the Anabaptists and others who think that the Holy Ghost comes to men without the external Word, through their own preparations and works.
