The confession was based on an early draft of the Augsburg Confession to which Bucer and Capito had secretly obtained access, but amended in the direction of Zwinglianism. Its purpose was to prevent a schism within Protestantism.
A confession was created using an early version of the Augsburg Confession, which was altered by Bucer and Capito to align more closely with Zwinglian ideas to avoid a split within Protestantism.