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Concordia Triglotta—English: The Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

English text of one of the most important documents of Lutheran thought. Features the Dau/Bente edition of the Lutheran Confessions.

55] And even though the Pope should hold Synods [a Council], how can the Church be healed if the Pope suffers nothing to be decreed contrary to his will, if he allows no one to express his opinion except his adherents whom he has bound by dreadful oaths and curses to the defense of his tyranny and wickedness without any exception concerning God’s Word [not even the Word of God being excepted]? 56] But since the decisions of Synods are the decisions of the Church, and not of the Popes, it is especially
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