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The Reformation · February 1527
The Schleitheim Confession
Michael Sattler and the Swiss Brethren · c. 1490–1527
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What it is
Seven articles: baptism on confession of faith, the ban, the breaking of bread, separation from the world, shepherds, the sword, and the oath.
Why it lasted
The founding document of Anabaptism. Its author was tortured and burned three months later, and his wife drowned.
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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