Annotatio III §.II: Second Consociation attempt ranked WITTENBERGENSE — Formula explains Coena consensus; eleven Reformed and six Lutheran subscribers; almost Interim-like pending wider approval
On that account I rank this second Consociation attempt higher — the Wittenberg one — because of the Wittenberg Formula of Concord, which even spells out agreement on the doctrine of the Supper.
Eleven Reformed and six Lutheran theologians subscribed it; read it in Chytraeus, pp. 680–681.
Call it almost Interim-like if you like: those theologians (Chytraeus’s words) would not finish the Concord until they had also referred it to the other theologians and magistrates for their approval.
Latin
Perfectius eo nomine reputandum duco Molimen hoc Consociationis Secundum, WITTENBERGENSE, ob Formulam Concordiae Wittenbergensem, etiam Consensum in Dogmate de Coena explicantem, ab undecim Reformatae, & sex Lutheranae partis Theologis subscriptam, legendamque apud Chytraeum pag. 680. 681.; Utut Interimisticum quasi dicendum, quòd Concordiam illam (sunt verba Chytraei) non concludere omninò voluerint dicti Theologi, priusquam ad caeteros etiam Theologos & Magistratus, eam, ceu ab his quoque approbandam, retulissent.