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Introducing The Smalcald Articles

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Melancthon's Confessional Document

Melancthon presented luther's small collar articles, but said he wasn't so clear on the power of bishops. Melancthon was able to use robert's rules of orders to take small called articles off the table and have them only voted on as a confessional document. The pope doesn't have this authority by scriptural mandate, divine mandate, but by human right, you know, the bishop's r you know, would submit to him,. So take that. This is great. I philip, melancthon also regardd the above articles as true and christian. However, concerning the pope, i maintain that if he would allow the gospel, we two

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