Annotatio V §.XII (4) replies: anger makes testimony stronger; Bucer; Chytraeus Marburg
Replies: (1) testimony from an angry Luther is stronger, not weaker; (2) the anger aimed less at denying Oral than at the false charge that the Supper is only bread and wine — which Bucer proved false to Luther many times in the English writings.
(3) Marburg’s terms are Chytraeus’s, not the Author’s Provost-letter version: they had not agreed whether body and blood are corporally present, yet each side would show Christian love and both would pray for the Spirit’s confirmation. Amen.
Latin
Resp. (1.) Testimonium Lutheri tantò præstantius esse & efficacius, quantò magis ab irascente Zwinglianis Luthero profectum est. (2.) Lutheri iram non adeò versam fuisse in Oralis Manducationis Negationem Zwinglianam, quàm in hypothesin, per iram, Zwinglianis imputatam, ab his verò fotam nunquam, quasi in S. Cœna nil nisi panis & vinum habeatur, id quod sexcenties Bucerus Luthero demonstravit in Scriptis suis Anglicis. (3.) Marpurgi non ita conventum esse, ut Autor refert ex Epistola Lutheri ad Præpositum, sed ut Chytræus refert in Hist. August. Confessionis, cujus verba plus semel citata ita habent: Etsi verò an verum corpus & Sanguis Christi CORPORALITER in pane & vino Cœnæ Domini præsens sit, hoc tempore non concordavimus: Tamen UNA PARS ALTERI Christianam dilectionem declarabit, & UTRAQUE PARS Deum omnipotentem diligenter orabit, ut NOS Spiritu suo in vera sententia confirmet, Amen.