AUGSBURG CONFESSION. This celebrated confession of faith was drawn up by Luther and Melanchthon, on behalf of themselves and other reformers, and presented in 1530 to the Emperor Charles V. at the diet of Augusta or Augsburg, in the name of the evangelic body. It contains 28 chapters, of which the greater part is occupied with an impartial representation of the religious opinions of the Protestants, and the remainder in pointing out the errors and abuses that occasioned their separation from the Church of Rome.