§.XI open: Close Variata defense with Chemnitz judgment — Lyser 1594, Bajer 1676, Hannekenius Declarat. cite the same Chemnitz words
§. XI. We close this defense of the Variata — that it is not to be attacked or thrown out — with the Chemnitz judgment already cited a little above.
It is the piece On the Controversies once stirred about certain Augsburg Confession articles, edited by Polycarp Leyser at Wittenberg in 1594 and again by Bajer at Jena in 1676, praised by both.
Most recently the Wittenberg theologian Hannekenius smoothed the same saying in his Theological Declaration on the true Estimation of the Augsburg Confession (Preliminary Question 4, near the end, p. 6).
Chemnitz's words are these:
Latin
§. XI.
Disputationem nostram pro Confessione Variata non impugnanda aut rejicienda institutam, claudimus paulò ante allegato judicio D. MARTINI CHEMNITII de Controversiis quae superiori tempore, circa quosdam August. Confess. Articulos, motae & agitatae sunt, & tam à D. Polycarpo Lysero Anno 1594. Wittenbergae, quam à D. Bajero Anno 1676. Jenae, edito, ab utroque etiam laudato, quin novissimè à Wittenbergensi Theologo, D. Hannekenio, exasciato dicto, Declarat. Theol. de vera August. Conf. Estimatione Quaest. Prelim. 4. sub finem. pag. 6. cujus Judicii Chemniziani verba ita habent: