Annotatio III §.VI (3): Frankfurt Estates (third year after) approve the Leipzig Colloquy and decree Saxony and Brandenburg continue the Protestant peace work
(3.) Finally, in the third year afterward the Imperial Estates gathered at Frankfurt am Main not only approved the Leipzig Colloquy, but — judging they would not be cheated of the Leipzig theologians’ hope — sanctioned by a special decree that Electors Saxony and Brandenburg be asked in the Estates’ public name to keep the Protestant peace business begun at Leipzig going through more moderate theologians’ work, and to bring it to a happy end.
Because few know that decree, we set it out here in the words printed in John Dury’s Prodromus Irenicorum, p. 1.
Latin
Denique (3.) quòd Status Imperii, tertio post anno, Francofurti ad Moenum congregati, non tantum Colloqv. Lipf. aprobarunt, sed Spe Theologorum Lipsiensium se haud frustratum iri arbitrati, Decreto peculiari sanciverunt, Electores Serenissimos, Saxonicum & Brandenburgicum, publico suo nomine rogandos esse, quò Pacis Protestanticae Negotium, Lipsiae inchoatum, plurium Theologorum moderatiorum operâ, continuandum, & ad felicem exitum perducendum curarent. Decretum Statuum, cùm ad paucorum notitiam pervenerit, exhibemus hic Lectori nostro, iis verbis, quibus illud in Joh. Durai Prodromo Irenicorum descriptum legimus, pag. 1.