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The Reformation · 1531
Apology of the Augsburg Confession
Philipp Melanchthon · 1497–1560
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What it is
A long defence answering the Catholic Confutation article by article, with the treatment of justification running to more than a third of the whole.
Why it lasted
The fullest exposition of Lutheran doctrine in the confessional books, and longer than the confession it defends.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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