AUGSBURG Confession, denotes a celebrated confession of faith drawn up by Luther and Melanchthon, on behalf of themselves and other ancient reformers, and presented in 1530 to the emperor Charles V. at the diet of Augusta or Augsbarg, in the name of the evangelic body. This confession contains 28 chapters; of which the greatest part is employed in representing, with perspicuity and truth, the religious opinions of the Protestants, and the rest in pointing out the errors and abuses that occasioned their separation from the church of Rome.