J.X open: Variata defense was not for Reformed favor — Invariata equally dear; Leipzig Colloquy; Museus/Chemnitz on fuller Variata
J. X. Anyone can see that what we have argued so far for the Variata or Philippica Augsburg Confession was not argued to favor the Reformed.
To them the Invariata is no less welcome than the Variata — clear enough from the Leipzig Colloquy alone in the last century among Saxon, Brandenburg, and Hessian theologians.
With John Museus, following Martin Chemnitz, they only add that in the later edition most articles are drawn out more fully and stated more richly, and that many useful things appear there.
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J. X.
Quae hactenus pro Variata seu Philippica Confessione Augustana disputavimus, non in Reformatorum gratiam disputata fuisse quivis facile intelligat, utpote quibus Invariata Confessio non minus grata, atque Variata est, id quod vel ex solo Colloquio Lipsiaco, superiori seculo Saxonicos inter, Brandenb. & Hassiacos Theologos, habito, satis superque constat, nisi quod cum Joh. Museo ex Martino Chemnitio, de posteriori teneant, plerosque Articulos in ea fusius deductos & uberius declaratos esse, multa etiam utilia in ista editione reperiri.