Annotatio III §.IV: Frederick III’s Testament (via Grynaeus) warns sons against turbulent ministers who spawn logomachies against churches agreed on the foundation in Christ
Also worth remembering is a passage from Elector Frederick III’s Testament to his sons, taken from Johann Jacob Grynaeus and joined to his pious admonition on the duty of godly men who must live beside the cataract of anathemas against sound eucharistic teaching (pp. 47–49).
Third and above all, he warns his dearest sons to watch most carefully against turbulent ministers of churches and schools who, in religion and faith, incite disputes of every kind, word-battles, and deadly condemnations against pious churches and schools which nevertheless agree in the foundation and chief heads of the Christian religion and place their salvation with us in Christ alone.
From ambition and crooked zeal, under pretext of a ministry by which they claim the Spirit should convict the world, they introduce this without declared cause and not without scandal — trying, no less than in the cursed Papacy, to dominate magistrates’ and subjects’ consciences and raise a new primacy for themselves everywhere.
Latin
Memoratu quoque digna Pericopa ex Testamento Sereniss. Electoris Friderici III. ad Filios Celsissimos, ex Joh. Jac. Grynaeo excerpta, & pia Commonefactioni ejus de Officio piorum Hominum, qui necesse habent versari ad Catadupa Anathematismorum adversus sanam doctrinam de Eucharistia à pag. 47. ad pag. 49. subjuncta, his verbis: Tertiò ac praecipuè moneo ac hortor charissimos filios meos, ut sibi quam diligentissimè à turbulentis tam Ecclesiarum quam Scholarum ministris caveant, qui nunc in Religionis & fidei negotiis omnis generis contentiones, logomachias & exitiales condemnationes in pias Ecclesias & Scholas, quae tamen in fundamento, & praecipuis Christianae Religionis capitibus consentiunt, & salutem suam unà nobiscum in unicum nostrum Servatorem Jesum Christum collocant, ex vera ambitione & perverso zelo, ac praetextu ministerii sui, per quod Sanctum Spiritum mundum arguere volunt, idque indictâ causa, nec sine scandalo introducere, & non minùs, quàm in execrando Papatu factum est, tam in Magistratuum, quam in subditorum conscientias dominari, & sibi novum quendam primatum passim erigere ac constituere conantur.