§.XIII: Peace Instrument Art. VII — Reformed expressly numbered among AC Socii; quote
Further, Cap. 6 §.8 cites the famous words of Article VII of the Peace Instrument — worth noting, and celebrated — by which the Reformed are expressly counted among Augsburg Confession associates.
With that one stroke fall the hostile schemes of certain harsh theologians who, in an un-Christian way, rashly riot as if thirsting for Christian blood.
The Peace Instrument's words run: By unanimous consent of the Imperial Majesty and of all Estates of the Empire it was resolved that whatever right or benefit the other constitutions of the Empire, the Religious Peace, and this public settlement (with its decision of grievances) grant to other Catholic and Augsburg-Confession states and subjects, that same must also belong to those among them called Reformed.
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Praetereà Cap. 6. §. 8., Articuli VII. Instrumenti Pacis ut notatu dignissima ita celebratissima verba adducens, quibus Reformati disertè Augustanae Confessionis Sociis annumerantur, omniaque inimica & Achristianô exemplo, Sanguinem Christianum sitientia temerè tumultuantium nonnullorum Theologorum acerborum molimina, ictu unô prosternuntur. Verba Instrumenti Pacifici ita habent: Unanimi quoque Caesareae Majestatis omniumque Imperii Ordinum Consensu placuit, ut quicquid Juris aut beneficii, cum omnes aliae Constitutiones Imperii, tùm Pax Religionis & Publica haec Transactio in eaque decisio gravaminum, caeteris Catholicis & Augustanae Confessionis addictis Statibus & Subditis tribuunt, id etiam iis, qui inter eos Reformati vocantur, competere debeat.