§.XIV close (6): Alone orthodox by these universals — damn soft AC confessors; yet invited to fraternal union
(6.) Finally, those who by THESE UNIVERSALS imagine that they alone are orthodox, and that all their commentaries belong to the foundation of the faith — whether before it, with it, or after it — and who shut out and damn everyone who will not rise to the Formula of Concord (better called Discord), even when those others sincerely confess both the Invariata and the Variata Augsburg Confession in everything else.
They cut themselves off by a schism more carnal and more unhappy from syncretists and from the Reformed almost alike — worse than the cut Papists make from Protestants.
Yet from the very people they leave they are invited, and ought to be invited, as steadily as without tiring — however unwilling — not only to mutual tolerance but to a brotherly embrace and church union, through and for the sake of God and his Christ (once the fundamental consent of all Augsburg Confession associates is shown).
On that, more in the Annotations that follow next.
Latin
(6.) Qui denique per HAEC UNIVERSA & se solos Orthodoxos esse, & sua Commenta omnia ad Fundamentum Fidei, sive Antecedenter, sive Concomitanter, sive Consequenter, pertinere sibi imaginati, quotquot Formulae Concordiae, rectius Discordiae appellandae, non assurgunt, utut caetera Aug. Confess. Invariatam perinde atque Variatam sincerissimo animo profitantur, à se arcent ac damnant, Schismate, ut carnaliori multò, ita & infeliciori, à Syncretistis ferè juxtà ac Reformatis, quàm Pontificii à Protestantibus, semet separantes; Ab his ipsis tamen, à quibus semet sejungunt, studiosissimè pariter atque indefessè, non tantum ad mutuam Tolerantiam, sed & Complexum Fraternum & Unionem Ecclesiasticam, utcunque inviti, per & propter Deum Christumq; ejus, (demonstratô Sociorum August. Confess. omnium Consensu Fundamentali) invitati invitandique; Quo de in sequentibus proximè Annotationibus plura.