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The Amsdorfians were an early sect of Protestant Christians, who took their name from the 16th-century German reformer Nicolaus von Amsdorf. They maintained that good works were not only unprofitable, but obstacles, to salvation. The Amsdorfians were rigid confessionists.

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Amsdorfians". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
  • Charles Buck, Theological Dictionary