Are You Without Guile?

"No one who is a follower of the Augsburg Confession without guile will complain about these writings. They will cheerfully accept and tolerate them as witnesses of the truth. No one can think ill about us because we get an explanation and decision about the articles in controversy from these writings. As we lay down God's Word-the eternal truth-as the foundation, we also introduce and quote these writings as a witness of the truth and as the unanimously received, correct understanding of our predecessors who have steadfastly held to the pure doctrine."

The Formula of Concord, SD Rule and Norm, 12-13
Quoted from
Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions
(St. Louis: CPH, 2006) 509.