A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §175 · Samuel Strimesius

Decem Theses IX-X close: Tolerate ubiquitism still; Luther and Melanchthon dissented on Coena yet stayed Socii — so Reformed; Addendum Bajerus

IX. Ubiquitism and whatever hangs on it may be a huge error; still, no solemn act of a general or national synod has yet condemned it, and its defenders talk about it in such different ways that one can hardly tell what they actually hold.

So it should still be tolerated, and those who approve it should nonetheless be counted among the associates of the Augsburg Confession.

X. Luther and Melanchthon were associates of the Augsburg Confession, held as such by everyone, and stayed heart-devoted to it to the end of their course, even though they disagreed on how Christ's body is exhibited in the Holy Supper.

In the same way the Reformed, no less than the Lutherans, remain associates of the Augsburg Confession, even when they do not fully agree on that point and on certain other school questions.

Addendum and correction: p. 13, line 5 — for Christianum Pontanum read Christianum Bajerum, after the Most Serene Elector obtained by petition from Emperor Charles V that the Augsburg Confession should also be read aloud in German in Germany and in the city of Augsburg. See Clar. Pipping, Einleitung zu den Symbol. Schrifften Lutherischer Kirchen.

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IX. Utut Ubiquitismus, & quicquid ei annexum est, ingens error sit, quoniam tamen per actum quendam solennem, in Generali quadam aut Nationali Synodo, nondum improbatus est, propugnatores quoque ejus adeò diversimodè de eo loquuntur, ut quid propriè statuant, intelligi vix queat, aestimandum est, tolerari adhuc, & approbantes istum, nihilo secius Augustanae Confessionis Sociis annumerandos esse. X. Quemadmodum & D. Lutherus, & M. Phil. Melanchthon, Augustanae Confessionis Socii fuêre, tales ab omnibus habiti, eique ad finem usque viae ex intimo corde addicti permansêre, licèt de modo exhibitionis Corporis Christi in S. Coena, dissenserint; Ita Reformati aequè ac Lutherani Socii Augustanae Confessionis permanent, quamvis in eodem, & aliis quibusdam quaestionibus scholasticis, non penitus inter se conveniant. Addendum & emendandum: Pag. 13. lin. 5. Pro: Christianum Pontanum, lege: Christianum Bajerum, postquam SERENISSIMUS ELECTOR ab IMPERATORE CAROLO V. precibus impetrasset, ut Augustana Confessio, in Germania inq Augusta Vindelicorum Civitate, etiam Germanico Idiomate prelegeretur. Vid. Clar. Pipping/ in der Einleitung zu den Symbol. Schrifften Lutherischer Kirchen.

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