_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 XIII: Of the Use of the Sacraments.  
         
        Of the Use of the Sacraments they teach that the Sacraments 
        were ordained, not only to be marks of profession among men, 
        but rather to be signs and testimonies of the will of God 
        toward us, instituted to awaken and confirm faith in those who 
        use them. Wherefore we must so use the Sacraments that faith 
        be added to believe the promises which are offered and set 
        forth through the Sacraments.  
         
        They therefore condemn those who teach that the Sacraments 
        justify by the outward act, and who do not teach that, in the 
        use of the Sacraments, faith which believes that sins are 
        forgiven, is required.  
         
        

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