_The Confession of Faith:
             Which Was Submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V
                  At the Diet of Augsburg in the Year 1530_.
                        by Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560
                   Translated by F. Bente and  W. H. T. Dau
                                 Published in:
                   _Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books
                         of the Ev. Lutheran Church_.
           (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 37-95.


        Article V: Of the Ministry.  
         
        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, the 
        Holy Ghost is given, who works faith; where and when it 
        pleases God, in them that hear 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.  
         
        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.  
         
        

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