And should Lutherans receive the Reformed as Augsburg partners — without Formula-of-Concord anathemas?
And should the Lutherans, for their part, count the Reformed as brethren — even as partners of the Augsburg Confession in Melanchthon's revised form — as to the substance of what must be believed and done?
Should they keep peace and mutual correspondence with us, and join mutual leagues against the Roman Antichrist?
Not with the old rashness of damning, as in the Book of Concord and what followed; not with the appetite for baiting and tearing that brands men Nestorians, Manichaeans, Predestinarians, Sacramentarians, and the rest — in pulpits and in print.
All the more so because the Reformed themselves, with their whole heart, abhor the ugly consequences painted onto them: an unmerciful God, God as author of sin, and the like.
Latin
Et an vicissìm Lutherani Reformatos habere debeant pro fratribus, quin pro sociis Augustanae Confessionis, ut à Melanchthone recognita est, quoad substantiam credendorum & faciendorum; adeóque nobiscum pacem ac mutuam correspondentiam colere, venireque in mutua adversùs Antichristum Romanum foedera? Procul scilicet damnandi temeritate, ut factum olim in Libro Concordiae, ac deinceps, vel exagitandi ac lacerandi libidine, invidiosissimis appellationibus Nestorianorum, Manichaeorum, Praedestinatianorum, Sacramentariorum, &c. idque in Concionibus, & Scriptis; Quo magis invidiosissimas Consequentias, de Deo Immiseracorde, Auctore peccati, &c. toto pectore Reformati detestantur?