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| | AN ORDINANCE OF A COMMON CHEST |
 | | Under the influence of the latter, and perhaps not without Luther’s direct influence, there was drawn up in the congregation at Leisnig, probably by its recently elected clergymen, an Ordinance of a Common Chest, which was submitted to Luther for his approval. |
 | | The nobles, council, guildmasters, elders and commons of the town of Leisnig and vicinage solmenly agree, in the matter of choosing their pastors, to exercise their Christian liberty in accordance with Holy Scripture. |
 | | The preface, together with the Leisnig ordinance itself, is found in Clemen’s Edition, 2:404-23; the Weimar Edition, 12:11-30; the Erlangen Edition, 22:106-30; the St. Louis Edition, 10:954-77, and the Berlin Edition, 7:107-37. |
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