f the
Theses, and published the next year.

3. _Instructio pro confessione peccatorum abbrevianda secundum
decalogum_. Latin form of the above, published shortly after the
original. _Erl. Ed., op. ex. lat._, XII, 229-230.

4. _Kurze Unterweisung wie man beichten soll_. _Weimar Ed._, II,
57 ff.; Erl. Ed., XXI, 245-253 prepared by request of Spalatin,
first in Latin, and then translated, Kostlin thinks by Spalatin,
into German. Published 1518. Contains eight introductory
propositions, followed by lists of sins against each commandment.

5. _Confitendi Ratio_, published in 1520, a re-elaboration by
Luther of the preceding German treatise. _Weimar Ed._, VI,
159-169; _Erl. Ed._, IV, 152-170; _St. Louis Ed._, XIX, 786-806.

[2] "_Ja, mein ganzes Leben, und alles, das ich thu, handel, red
und gedenk, ist also gethan, das es todlich und vordammlich
ist_." These are almost the words of the public confessional
prayer in the Kirchenbuch of the General Council of the Lutheran
Church in America: "_Also dans alle meine Natur und
Wesenstraflich und verdammlich ist_."

[3] _Erl. Ed., op. var. arg._, IV, 89 aq. "_Si enim suum malum
sentiret, infernum sentiret, nam infernum in se ipso habet_." See
this volume, p. 115f.

[4] _Erl. Ed., op. ex. lat._, XIX, 1-154.

[5] _Erl. Ed._ (2d ed.), XI, 173.

[6] See the opening paragraph of this treatise.

[7] _Erl. Ed._, XI, 166, XXIX, 352-359. Cf. with this, the still
fuller treatment by Chemnitz, _Examin Concilii Tridentini_
(Preuss edition), 441-453.

[8] _Babylonian Captivity_, _Erl. Ed., op. var. arg._, V, 82.

[9] Cf. _Augsburg Confession_, Art. XXV; _Apology in Book of
Concord_, English Translation, pp. 133, 173, 185, 188, 196;
_Smalcald Articles_, 330-339; Small Catechism, 371.

[10] _Sermon vom Sacrament der Busse_, Erl. Ed., XX, 190. For
definition of "mortal and venial," see Introduction to XCV
Theses, above, p. 19.

[11] See Vol. II. of this edition.

[12] Deninger, _Enchridion Symbolorum_, soc. 782; Sceaff's
_Creeds of Christendom_.

[13] "As though the Word of God cannot forgive sins, except where
power derived from the Pope assist it." Chemnitz, _Examen
Concilii Tridentini_ (Preuss ed.), p. 456.

[14] _Apology_, p. 212; "There is a reservation of canonical
punishments; there is not a reservation of guilt before God in
those who are truly converted."

A DISCUSSION OF CONFESSION

(CONFITENDI RATIO)

1520

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