The Church of the Redeemer As Developed Within the General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America: With a Historic Outline from the Apostolic Age; to Which Is Appended a Plan for Restoring Apostolic Union Between All Orthodox Denominations

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Synod. Some of them have already felt the influence of our free institutions, and a quarter of a century will teach them fully to appreciate the apostolic liberty of our country, and to feel the Obligation it imposes on them. Then, or even sooner, the great body. Of them will, if we mistake not, occupy the apostolic ground Of our General Synod. We therefore cordially invite all, who do not approve the status of the General Synod, to accompany us through the pages of this work, in which the principles in question. Are examined and traced to their original sources. Some of the historical portions may be passed over lightly by the learned, as they were added for the benefit of the popular reader.

To those, therefore, who are friends of the rigid symbolic system of the post-lutheran era of the Reformation, as practised for two centuries in our church in Germany, we would say, in the premises, that our standpoint differs materially from theirs.

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