§.XII late (3): Circumstantial non-subscribers — Beza & Martyr at Poissy still not unworthy of the name
(3) Even those who, for local and temporal reasons, withdrew from subscription are not wholly unworthy of the wider name of Augsburg Confession theologians and associates.
They held the Confession congruent with God's word as to substance, yet feared it would become — at least by accident — a torch of many evils in this or that kingdom or principality.
Beza and Peter Martyr are said to have done this at the Colloquy of Poissy in France. See Pareus, Irenicum, pp. 294–295; Crocius on the Augsburg Confession, p. 144ff.
Latin
(3.) Ne illi quidem, latiori hûc sensu, Theologorum Sociorumque Augustanae Confessionis nomine, omnino indigni aestimandi, qui pro locorum temporumque circumstantiis, in hoc, vel isto Regno ac Principatu, August. Confess., utcunque, quà Substantiam, verbo Dei congruam à se habitam, multorum tamen malorum facem, per accidens saltem, futuram veriti, subscriptioni ejusdem semet subduxerunt: Quale quid Theod. Beza & Pet. Martyr, in Colloquio Possiaceno in Gallia fecisse feruntur. Videatur Pareus Iren. pag. 294. 295. Joh. Crocius, Comment in August. Conf. pag. 144. & seqq.