Germanized.
I. Christian freedom is not being bound to any place, time, or work, according to the Gospel and the teachings of Paul.
II. To prefer the life and rule of the Barefoot Brothers to general Christianity, as it is now, is to deny Christ.
III To live as the Barefoot Brothers live, who are deep in superstition, is nothing other than rejecting the Gospel and Paul.
IV. The true service of God is neither helped nor harmed by little and bad, nor by delicious and splendid clothes; rather, it consists in faith and love.
V. He who walks in true evangelical poverty and chastity according to his station, in obedience to God, can only be said to follow Christ, even if he takes a wife and never begs.
VI. We maintain that neither apparent, nor respectable, nor even lowly garments contribute anything to devotion; but we judge everything from the spirit and from faith.
VII. We do not approve of building monasteries, as they are now, unless the old usage is restored in them and schools are established for the young and the young at heart, so that no one is forced by vows, but serves freely.
*) These sentences are found in Kapp's Nachlese nützlicher Reformationurkunden, Theil 2, p. 516.
**) These sentences are found in Kapp's Nachlese nützlicher Resormationsurkunden, Theil 2, p. 527.