Part I Protheoria: No Predestination quarrel until Hunnius — Formula, Montbeliard, Marbach-Zanchi
And afterward Luther confirmed it in a lucid Preface to the Epistle to the Romans and in other writings, even German ones. Nor was any Controversy on this argument moved against the Reformed — neither in the Torgau Formula or Book of Concord of 1577, nor in the Montbeliard Colloquy published in 1587. On the contrary, Synergists were marked in the Formula of Concord: namely those who set a certain synergy (συνεργία) of Free Will, and held the Causes of Conversion to be the Holy Spirit, the Word, and Man's Will — which error was imputed to Melanchthon. So when contention arose at Strasbourg in 1562 between Johann Marbach and Jerome Zanchi, and Zanchi's doctrine was most bitterly harassed, there was no serious remonstrance on the Predestination argument. In that doctrine the Arbiters — among them Schmidlin summoned from Tubingen — judged there was no great diversity.
Nor, Calixtus himself warns in his Animadversions on the Thorn Confession, was a sentence different from that received Augustinian view — to which the Theologians of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession had clung — brought back into Churches and Schools before Aegidius Hunnius, then teaching at Wittenberg in 1580, and Georg Mylius of Jena.
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rint. Ac confirmavit postea Lutherus, luculenta Praefat. in Epist. ad Romanos, & scriptis aliis, etiam Germanicis. Nulla etiam hoc de argumento Controversia Reformatis mota, vel in Formula Torgensi, seu Libro Concordiae A. 1577. vel in Colloquio Montis-Belligartensi, vulgato A. 1587. Quin notati in Formula Concordiae Synergistae; nempe qui statuerent συνεργίαν quandam Lib. Arbitrii, & Causas Conversionis esse Spiritum S. Verbum, & Voluntatem Hominis, qui imputatus error fuit Melanchthoni. Sic exorta inter Joh. Marbachium & Hieron. Zanchium contentione, Argentinae A. 1562. & hujus doctrina acerbissime exagitata, nulla gravis expostulatio fuit in argumento de Praedestinat. In qua doctrina judicarunt Arbitri, quos inter Schmidlinus, Tubinga evocatus, non magnam diversitatem esse. Nec ante Aegid. Hunnium Wittenbergae tum docentem, A. 1580. & Georg. Mylium Jenensem, diversam sententiam a recepta illa Augustini, (cui adhaesissent Invariatae Augustanae Confess. Theologi) in Ecclesias Scholasque reductam, monuit ipse Calixtus, Animadvers. ad Confess. Thorunens.