item: #1 of 16
          id: 16285
      author: Gerberding, G. H. (George Henry)
       title: The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
        date: None
       words: 50077
      flesch: 76
     summary: In the ardor and fervor of their young hearts' devotion they can repeat these beautiful words of their catechism and say: I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is _my_ Lord; who has redeemed _me_, a lost and condemned creature, secured and delivered _me_ from all sin, from death, and from the power of the devil ... in order that I might be His, live under Him in His kingdom and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence and blessedness. It certainly seems repugnant to all that we have ever learned of our God and Saviour, that it should be His will that our dear children, who have been _conceived and born in sin_, and are therefore _by nature_, or by birth, _the children of wrath_, should remain in this state of sin and condemnation until they are old enough to be converted at a revival.
    keywords: baptism; catechism; change; chapter; child; children; christ; church; doctrine; faith; god; grace; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; love; lutheran; man; means; nature; new; revival; salvation; school; sin; spirit; time; way; word
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        item: #2 of 16
          id: 1670
      author: Luther, Martin
       title: Luther's Little Instruction Book: The Small Catechism of Martin Luther
        date: None
       words: 4244
      flesch: 87
     summary: After this, pray the Lord's Prayer and the following prayer: Lord God, Heavenly Father, bless us and these gifts, which we receive from Your generous hand, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. We must fear, love, and trust God more than anything else.
    keywords: father; god; holy; lord; sins
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        item: #3 of 16
          id: 18107
      author: Schmucker, S. S. (Samuel Simon)
       title: American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann
        date: None
       words: 56401
      flesch: 62
     summary: a sacrifice, (Ich mache _weder_ Messe _noch_ Sacrament zum opfer,) but the remembrance of Christ, [Note 16] &c. It is classed again with _human_ ordinances which promote good external discipline among the people.
    keywords: article; augsburg confession; baptism; christ; christian; church; churches; confession; creed; day; divine; doctrine; entire; eucharist; faith; general; god; holy; lord; luther; lutheran; mass; melancthon; men; new; note; pardon; platform; reformers; sabbath; sacraments; sic; sins; subject; supper; synod; time; truth; views; word; works
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        item: #4 of 16
          id: 19422
      author: Schmucker, B. M. (Beale Melanchthon)
       title: The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America
        date: None
       words: 14898
      flesch: 59
     summary: When, therefore, the early Lutheran immigrants in this country were disposed to form themselves into congregations, to adopt regulations for their own government, to settle their relations to other Lutheran congregations, to determine the order of worship to be observed, they had to feel their way in the dark. The Amsterdam constitution was, therefore, the immediate basis of the congregations in New York City, Albany, Loonenburg, Hackensack, on the Raritan, and of other congregations in New York founded by Falckner, Berkenmeyer and Knoll.
    keywords: amsterdam; church; church council; churches; congregation; constitution; council; elders; german; god; lutheran; members; muehlenberg; new; office; pastor; reformed; vorsteher
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        item: #5 of 16
          id: 20941
      author: Bente, F. (Friedrich)
       title: American Lutheranism, Volume 1 Early History of American Lutheranism and the Tennessee Synod
        date: None
       words: 92546
      flesch: 60
     summary: Helffenstein be the committee to the New York Synod, and the Rev. Messrs. Hendel, Hoffmeier, and Wack, Sr., the committee to the Lutheran Synod. Minutes of German Reformed Synod, 1818: The committee which was appointed to confer with a committee of the Lutheran Synod in reference to the founding of a theological school reported that they attended the Lutheran Synod of last year, and were received in a very fraternal manner; and that that Synod has appointed a committee to confer after the present meeting with a committee of the Reformed Synod on any subjects relating to the school, and to submit something definite; and they proposed that a similar committee be appointed.
    keywords: america; augsburg; believe; bible; body; carolina synod; children; christ; christian; church; churches; committee; confession; congregations; constitution; david; doctrinal; doctrine; english; evangelical; faith; following; general; general synod; german; god; good; halle; henkel; holy; language; letter; lord; lutheran; lutheran church; lutheran synod; lutheranism; majority; manner; meeting; members; men; ministerium; ministers; minutes; muhlenberg; new; north; order; pastors; pennsylvania synod; people; philadelphia; present; reformed; report; seminary; spirit; synod; tennessee synod; time; truth; union; united; word; years; york
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        item: #6 of 16
          id: 26909
      author: Bente, F. (Friedrich)
       title: Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
        date: None
       words: 252484
      flesch: 63
     summary: Hence original sin cannot have despoiled him of this liberty of choosing _pro_ or _con_ also in matters spiritual. In keeping with her fundamental teaching of _sola gratia_ and _gratia universalis_, according to which God's grace is the only cause of man's salvation, and man's evil will the sole cause of his damnation, the Lutheran Church holds that eternal election is an election of grace, _i.e._, a predestination to salvation only.
    keywords: account; agreement; agricola; andreae; answer; apology; articles; augsburg; augsburg confession; august; augustana; baptism; beginning; believe; bible; blood; body; book; brenz; calvin; calvinists; catechism; cause; certain; changes; chemnitz; chief; children; christ; christian; church; churches; clear; commandments; concord; confession; confutation; conscience; controversies; controversy; copy; council; creed; crypto; day; death; devil; die; diet; divine; doctrine; document; doubt; duke; edition; election; elector; emperor; errors; est; estates; eternal; explanation; fact; faith; father; flacius; following; formula; frank; free; general; german; ghost; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; heart; hell; holy; human; instruction; interim; january; jesus; john; june; justification; knowledge; latin; law; leipzig; letter; life; light; lord; luther; lutheran; lutheranism; majesty; major; man; manner; march; matter; means; melanchthon; men; ministers; nature; necessary; new; non; obedience; opinion; opponents; order; original; osiander; papists; particular; parts; pastors; paul; peace; people; person; philip; philippists; point; pope; power; prayer; preachers; preaching; predestination; preface; preger; presence; present; princes; proposition; public; purpose; question; read; reason; reformed; remarks; repentance; respect; righteousness; romanists; salvation; saxony; scriptures; second; sed; september; sermons; sin; sins; smalcald; spirit; statements; strigel; substance; supper; symbols; teaching; text; theologians; things; time; title; true; truth; und; views; way; wittenberg; word; works; writings; year
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        item: #7 of 16
          id: 273
      author: Luther, Martin
       title: The Smalcald Articles
        date: None
       words: 13389
      flesch: 69
     summary: On the other hand, if certain sectarists would arise, some of whom are perhaps already extant, and in the time of the insurrection [of the peasants] came to my own view, holding that all those who had once received the Spirit or the forgiveness of sins, or had become believers, even though they should afterwards sin, would still remain in the faith, and such sin would not harm them, and [acknowledge] themselves guilty of such actual sins in [committed by] thoughts, words, and works,--as I, and such as I, in monasteries and chapters [fraternities or colleges of priests], wished to be monks and priests, and by fasting, watching, praying, saying Mass, coarse garments, and hard beds, etc., fought against [strove to resist] evil thoughts, and in full earnest and with force wanted to be holy, and yet the hereditary, inborn evil sometimes did in sleep what it is wont to do (as also St. Augustine and Jerome among others confess),--still each one held the other in esteem, so that some, according to our teaching, were regarded as holy, without sin and full of good works, so much so that with this mind we would communicate and sell our good works to others, as being superfluous to us for heaven.
    keywords: christ; church; faith; god; good; holy; man; mass; men; pope; sin; sins; word; works
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        item: #8 of 16
          id: 275
      author: Melanchthon, Philipp
       title: The Augsburg Confession The confession of faith, which was submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V at the diet of Augsburg in the year 1530
        date: None
       words: 14565
      flesch: 66
     summary: And this error greatly tormented devout consciences, which grieved that they were held in an imperfect state of life, as in marriage, in the office of magistrate; or in other civil ministrations; on the other hand, they admired the monks and such like, and falsely imagined that the observances of such men were more acceptable to God. I, Cap. Nuptiarum), and his authority is not lightly to be esteemed, although other men afterwards thought otherwise.
    keywords: article; christ; church; faith; god; good; grace; holy; life; men; sins; things; works
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        item: #9 of 16
          id: 34994
      author: Habermann, Johann
       title: Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions
        date: None
       words: 24770
      flesch: 84
     summary: Seek Thou Thy servant, that I forget not Thy commandments. Thou brightest Light of all; And lest we stray from rightness, Make Thou Thy truth our wall.
    keywords: amen; body; christ; day; evil; father; god; grace; grant; hast; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; lord god; mercy; night; o lord; prayer; son; soul; thee; thou; thy
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        item: #10 of 16
          id: 35737
      author: Anonymous
       title: The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger "Treasure of Prayers" ["Gebets-Schatz"] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
        date: None
       words: 33665
      flesch: 78
     summary: We beseech Thee, give us grace, and so operate in us through Thy Holy Spirit, that we may heartily rejoice and find comfort in Thy death and resurrection, and thereby quiet our consciences and overcome all fear of death. Thou didst also shed Thy precious blood to wash away and blot out our sins, and didst lay down Thy life in order to rescue us from eternal death.
    keywords: amen; christ; day; didst; father; god; hast; heart; holy; jesus; life; lord; lord god; lord jesus; o lord; prayer; sins; thee; thou; thy
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        item: #11 of 16
          id: 36081
      author: Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik
       title: Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers
        date: None
       words: 22077
      flesch: 91
     summary: The Son of God and the Son of Mary, true God and true man. Who alone can confidently call God Father?_
    keywords: christ; death; father; god; holy; life; lord; love; man; sins; spirit; word
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        item: #12 of 16
          id: 418
      author: Luther, Martin
       title: A Treatise on Good Works
        date: None
       words: 40771
      flesch: 67
     summary: Or who is he, before whose door and into whose house such good works do not daily come, so that he would have no need to travel far or to ask after good works? Now we see how the Almighty God has not only set our Lord Jesus Christ before us that we should believe in Him with such confidence, but also holds before us in Him an example of this same confidence and of such good works, to the end that we should believe in Him, follow Him and abide in Him forever; as He says, John xiv: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life,--the Way, in which we follow Him; the Truth, that we believe in Him; the Life, that we live in Him forever.
    keywords: children; christ; commandment; confidence; evil; faith; god; good; grace; heart; help; holy; honor; life; lord; love; luther; need; prayer; reason; sin; spiritual; things; way; works
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        item: #13 of 16
          id: 49618
      author: Buchheimer, L. B. (Louis Balthaser)
       title: Faith and Duty: Sermons on Free Texts, with Reference to the Church-Year
        date: None
       words: 140247
      flesch: 75
     summary: For the determining of the question, Is Jesus Christ God? In the rush and tug of life men are too much inclined to concern themselves with the affairs of this life, to lose sight of the greater value of the unseen and eternal.
    keywords: apostle; beloved; bible; blood; body; book; children; christ; christian; church; day; days; death; divine; duty; earth; evil; faith; father; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; heart; heaven; holy; house; human; jesus; know; life; light; look; lord; lord god; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; paul; people; person; place; power; prayer; reason; regard; religion; salvation; savior; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; sunday; text; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trinity; truth; unto; water; way; words; work; world; years
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        item: #14 of 16
          id: 53465
      author: Luther, Martin
       title: Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use
        date: None
       words: 64115
      flesch: 95
     summary: Our Lord Jesus Christ is true God, with God the Father the one true God in whom we believe, and to whom we pray. I Believe That My Lord Jesus Christ Is True God.
    keywords: christ; death; father; ghost; god; heaven; holy; jesus; kingdom; life; lord; love; man; neighbor; sins; word
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        item: #15 of 16
          id: 6744
      author: Melanchthon, Philipp
       title: The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
        date: None
       words: 111715
      flesch: 67
     summary: Thus the worship and divine service of the Gospel is to receive from God gifts, on the contrary, the worship of the Law is to offer and present our gifts to God. [There it must certainly be acknowledged that Christ means not only the works, but that He desires to have the heart, which He wishes to esteem God aright, and to believe correctly concerning Him, namely, that it is through mercy that it is pleasing to God.
    keywords: account; adversaries; christ; church; consciences; death; doctrine; faith; ghost; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; holy; human; justification; law; life; lord; love; men; mercy; merit; order; paul; promise; reason; remission; repentance; righteousness; saints; sake; sake god; says; sins; things; word; works
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        item: #16 of 16
          id: 9912
      author: Stump, Joseph
       title: An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
        date: None
       words: 52215
      flesch: 87
     summary: I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my Lord; who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, secured and delivered me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the devil, not with silver and gold, but with His holy and precious blood, and with His innocent sufferings and death; in order that I might be His, live under Him in His kingdom, and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness; even as He is risen from the dead, and lives and reigns to all eternity. I believe that Jesus Christ, true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, is my Lord; who has redeemed me, a lost and condemned creature, secured and delivered me from all sins, from death and from the power of the devil, not with silver and gold, but with His holy and precious blood, and with His innocent sufferings and death, in order that I might be His, live under Him in His kingdom, and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, even as He is risen from the dead, and lives and reigns to all eternity.
    keywords: baptism; christ; church; commandment; faith; father; god; good; holy; jesus; john; life; lord; love; luke; matt; petition; prayer; rom; sins; things; thou; thy; word
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