Annotatio III §.IV open: Fourth Consociation attempt HEIDELBERGENSE — Otto Henry & Frederick III (1559) pursue Protestant Concord; Heshusius opposes; Melanchthon restores ancient Coena speech
§. IV. To the Frankfurt attempt, by the link of years, one may join the Heidelberg one.
Its authors were Electors Palatine Otto Henry and Frederick III, in the Palatinate in 1559 — pressing hard for Protestant Concord, and opposing the very turbulent Heshusius (so Schmidlin in Hospinian, Concordia Discordans ch. 46 near the end, new Geneva ed. p. ~409).
From Philip Melanchthon’s counsel they restore the Fathers’ ways of speaking about the Sacred Supper. That counsel, given about half a year before Melanchthon’s death, stands in the later part of his Theological Counsels and Judgments supplied to Elector Frederick III (page 378f).
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§. IV.
Francofurtano Molimini, ob annorum Connexionem, adnectere liceat HEIDELBERGENSE, Ottone Henrico & Friderico III. Electoribus Palatinis Autoribus, in Palatinatu, Anno 1559., summo studio Protestantium Concordiam molientibus, & turbulento admodum (Judice Schmidlino apud Hospinianum Concord. Discord. cap. 46. haud procul a fine, Nov. Edit. Genev. p. m. 409) Heshusio sese opponentibus, ex consilio verò Philippi Melanchthonis, modos de Sacra Coena loquendi veterum, reducentibus. Consilium Melanchthonis, Annô ante obitum praeterpropter dimidio, datum, exstat Parte posteriori Consiliorum & Judiciorum ejus Theologicorum, Friderico III. Electori suppeditatum pag. 378. & seqq.