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THE LIFE OF PHILIP MELANCHTHON BY CHARLES FREDERICKLEDDERHOSE TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY REV . G. F. Krotel Pastor of trinity Lutheran church, Lancaster PA. PHILADELPHIA : LINDSAY & BLACKISTON 1855 DESCRPTION :--“The age in which he lived called him the Teacher of the german people, because he exerted a powerful influence upon the scientific and Christian culture of Germany. The author states his purpose in undertaking to write a biography on this great figure of the Reformation:-- The man who wrote the Augsburg Confession, and its Apology, Confessions which, after three hundred years, are still a stumbling-block to some, vut also an encouragement and consolation to may; a man who, notwithstanding hall his scientific attainments, in which he no doubt excelled the great majority in our own day, yet held fast to the fundamental principles of Christianity the manifestation of God, in the flesh, to the Redemption, to Justification by Faith, in life and in the hour of death, -- undoubtedly deserves to be introduced from the past, into the present, in order to preach salvation in Christ to the present generation. If Melanchton’s godly walk and conversation would be instrumental in leading him who is a stranger to salvation in Christ, to seek this; if it should serve to comfort and strengthen others, than may that word of read more

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