_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 XV: Of Ecclesiastical Usages.  
         
        Of Usages in the Church they teach that those ought to be 
        observed which may be observed without sin, and which are 
        profitable unto tranquillity and good order in the Church, as 
        particular holy-days, festivals, and the like.  
         
        Nevertheless, concerning such things men are admonished that 
        consciences are not to be burdened, as though such observance 
        was necessary to salvation.  
         
        They are admonished also that human traditions instituted to 
        propitiate God, to merit grace, and to make satisfaction for 
        sins, are opposed to the Gospel and the doctrine of faith. 
        Wherefore vows and traditions concerning meats and days, etc., 
        instituted to merit grace and to make satisfaction for sins, 
        are useless and contrary to the Gospel. 
        

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