Annotatio III §.VI (2): Colloquy end — both sides measure Augsburg-article agreement and hope closer union; mutual Christian love stipulated

(2.) At the colloquy’s end both sides signal why they met: to see how far they agree in the Augsburg Confession’s articles, and what hope remains of a closer union later — to enlarge Christ’s true church and quench the papists’ confidence drawn from Protestant division — while stipulating Christian love to one another in the meantime.

Their Relation words put it thus: the colloquy was meant first to learn, in summary, whether and how far both parties are one in the twenty-eight Augsburg articles, and whether further conferences of peace-loving theologians, with Christian high authority, might raise a nearer holding-together; and both sides’ theologians would show each other Christian love going forward, faithfully and without deceit.