Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation

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By the 16th century, virtually no one disagreed on the fact that the West needed to be reformed. What they disagreed on was

what that reform should entail and how it was to be affected in frustrated tension. Dozens of

competing factions, sex, schisms, rifts, rebellions, and divisions roiled just beneath the surface of the

West's tenuous tranquility. Finally, on October the 31st, 1517, those pent-up passions burst

out into the open when an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther posted his

95 feces on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. In a single stroke, not one but two

momentous renewal movements were launched that at last were able to affect

genuine reform within the church, the Protestant Reformation, and the reaffirmation of covenantal

principles to civil governance. This is the essential historical and cultural framework out of which

the Magburg Confession of 1550 was written. Against the backdrop of the centralizing totalitarianism

of the Habsburg Hegemony, the newly revived Holy Roman Empire, the people of the

little German town of Magburg, situated between Berlin and Hanover, not far from Brandenburg,

determined to recover their federal, their covenantal, their biblical culture.

Their confession of faith asserted that biblical covenantalism was the principle by which men

and nations might know the truth of the gospel and thus afford hope for their souls.

It was simultaneously the principle by which their cultural and political and social freedom might be one.

Originally titled The Confession, Instruction and Admonition of the Pastors and Preachers of the Christian Congations of Magburg. The confession was more than just

a statement of Protestant and Lutheran orthodoxy, composed in seven chapters by the nine pastors

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