Annotatio III §.VI (1): Reformed at Leipzig ready to subscribe the Invariata — Variata not rejected; Nauenburg 1561 precedent; Brandenburg/Hessian Relation confession
(1) Right at the start the Reformed theologians did not hesitate to bind themselves to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, and were fully ready to subscribe it whenever the other side asked — without rejecting or repudiating the Variata (Philippica), which they defended as the Imperial Estates had admitted it at the Nauenburg Convention in 1561.
Since this Leipzig Reformed act has been remembered before, it helps to bring in their own words from the German Relation of the Leipzig Colloquy.
There the Brandenburg and Hessian theologians voluntarily confessed with mouth and heart the 1530 Confession delivered to Charles V at Augsburg, and said they would subscribe it — even the Saxon Elector’s exemplar in the Augapfel — whenever and wherever asked, because they and their lords had already committed themselves to it in church and school. school. School.
Latin
(1) Quòd sub ipsum initium Reformati Theologi, Confessioni Augustanae Invariatae sese addicere nulli dubitarunt, paratissimi etiam subscribere eidem, quandocunque istud altera pars desideraret, non rejectâ interim aut repudiata Variata, seu Philippicâ, defensâ verò eô modô, quô Status Imperii in Conventu Nauenburgico An. 1561. hanc quoque ipsam admittendam duxerant. Cum hujus Reformatorum Lipsiensium facti jam aliquoties meminerimus, juvabit hôc locô verba eorum huc facientia in medium adducere, ex Relatione de Colloquio Lipsiaco, germanica.