Art.  IV. omits the closing sentence, that God will regard this faith as righteousness.

Art.  V. omits the condemnatory clause, and part of another sentence.

Art.  VI. omits the word “true” in reference to the unity of the church.

Art.  VIII. omits the condemnatory clause concerning the Donatists.

Art.  IX. omits the name Anabaptists.

Art.  X. omits the condemnatory clause.

Art.  XII. omits “absolution” and part of the condemnatory clause.

Art.  XVII. omits the condemnatory clause.

Art.  XVIII. omits the name of Augustine’s work, Hypognosticon, and about ten lines at the close.

Art.  XIX. omits the last sentence.

Art.  XX. omits different portions of this long article, amounting to one-half of the whole.

Art.  XXI. omits all that is said on war, and the Turks, &c., and the entire concluding paragraph, amounting to half a page 12mo.

Yet this work was circulated throughout the church, and we never heard a single word of objection, although the notes appended to it are far from being symbolic.

Rev. J. A. Probst, in his work on the Reunion of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches, published in 1826, speaking of this country, and especially the Synod of Pennsylvania, of which he was a member, says, “Zwingle’s more liberal, rational, and scriptural view of this doctrine, (election) as well as of the Lord’s Supper, has become the prevailing one among the Lutheran and Reformed,” p. 74.  The same fact, the rejection of some of the articles of the Augsburg Confession, is taught in some publications in 1827, by Dr. Endress, one of our most respected and learned ministers; and is confirmed by the language of the resolution passed by the Synod of Pennsylvania in 1823, on the subject of union between the Lutheran and Reformed churches in this country, between which bodies they affirm a unity of doctrinal views.  This dissent, was publicly avowed by Dr. F.  C. Schaeffer, of New York, who, in his edition of Luther’s Catechism, published in 1820, omitted the word “real or true” in reference to the Saviour’s body in the eucharist, (p. 21,) and in his Address at the Laying of the Corner-stone of St. Matthew’s Church, thus expresses himself.  “We rejoice with thanksgiving before the Lord, because he has given us our great symbolical book, the bible.  This is preferable to all the “books” and “confessions” of men.  According to a fundamental principle of the Lutherans, we depend not merely on the irrigating streamlets that originate in the fountain to which we have access, but we rather drink from that fountain itself.  The study and proper interpretation of the sacred writings, accompanied by the use of all outward helps which God’s providence has furnished, and aided by fervent prayer in the acceptable name of Jesus Christ the Mediator, is mainly inculcated in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.” p. 10.