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In the historic meeting held in 1527 in Schleitheim, Switzerland, an ad hoc group of Anabaptists worked through fundamental disagreements and emerged with a consensus on seven points of faith that became known as the Schleitheim Confession. This edition, translated and edited by John Howard Yoder, includes an introduction by Leonard Gross.

the little folk and the little flock of God may not be destroyed, but be preserved by warning and be consoled. VI. We have been united as follows concerning the sword. The sword is an ordering of God outside the perfection of Christ. It punishes and kills the wicked, and guards and protects the good. In the law the sword is established44 over the wicked for punishment and for death, and the secular rulers are established to wield the same. But within the perfection of Christ only the ban is used
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