Baptism and the Lord's Supper are signs that continually admonish, cheer, and encourage despairing minds to believe the more firmly that their sins are forgiven. So the same promise is written and portrayed in good works, in order that these works may admonish us to believe the more firmly. Those who produce no good works do not encourage themselves to believe, but despise these promises. The godly on the other hand, embrace them, and rejoice that they have the signs and testimonies of so great a promise. Accordingly, they exercise themselves in these signs and testimonies.
Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Article V: Of Love and Fulfilling of the Law, 155
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