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adore, <strong>and</strong> has openly denied the doctrine of concomitance. And now<br />

they have proceeded in the fury of their impiety to such a degree as to<br />

deny that the body of Christ remains in the consecrated Host, except in<br />

the use at the altar (extra altaris usum). Hence they falsely <strong>and</strong><br />

impiously call us idolaters, because we retain the body of the Lord in<br />

the consecrated Host in the Tabernacles (Cibariis) for infirm<br />

Communicants, or when we bear it (the body) about in monstrances <strong>and</strong><br />

processions." He quotes Melanchthon's words in the Apology, "with<br />

those things which are seen, the bread <strong>and</strong> wine," as flagrantly<br />

contradictory of Transubstantiation (turpiter contradicit sibi ipsi). 377<br />

Romanism <strong>and</strong> Rationalism. <strong>The</strong>ir principle here the same.<br />

In this connection it is worth noticing that, widely as Romanism, with<br />

its. Transubstantiation, <strong>and</strong> Rationalism, with its Symbol, differ in their<br />

results, they run into their error by the same fallacious principle of<br />

interpretation--each applying it with the same arbitrariness, but to<br />

different objects. <strong>The</strong> Romanist wishes to do away with the Scripture<br />

testimony in regard to the bread <strong>and</strong> wine; <strong>and</strong>, although they bear<br />

377 On the History <strong>and</strong> Literature of the Papal Confutation, which has great value in the interpretation <strong>and</strong> defence of<br />

the Augsburg Confession, see the works following:<br />

BRILL: Aufd. evangel. Augapfel, 1629. 4to. (the German translation of the work of Fabricius Leodius<br />

mentioned below).--DANZ: Augsburg Confess., Jena, 1829. 12mo., 6--CHYTRAEUS. Hist. Aug. Conf., 119.<br />

(Confutation, 173, seq.) Ger. Edit., 1577, p. 191.--COELESTINUS 1. 192 seq. Confutation III--CYPRIAN. 87<br />

seq.--FEUERLIN: Biblioth Symbol.--FICKENSCHER: Gesch. d. Reichst. z. Augsburg, 1830, III. 324.--<br />

FOERSTEMANN: Urkundenbuch, 2 vols. 8vo. Halle, 1835, II. 133-176.--FRANCKE: Lib. Symb. Eccl. Luth.<br />

Lips. 1847. Proleg. 12mo. xxx.-xxxiii. (Confutation, Append. 43-69.)--GABLER: Nst. <strong>The</strong>ol. Jour., 1801, 443<br />

seq.--HASE: Lib. Symb. Eccles. Evangel. Lips. 1827, 2 vols. 12mo. Proleg. lxxiv.-lxxvi. <strong>The</strong> Confutation,<br />

lxxvi.-cxiv.--HOFFMAN: Comment. in A. C. Tubing., 1727. 4to. 205-213.--KöLLNER: Symb. d. Luther. Kirche.<br />

Hamb. 1837, p. 397-416--MüLLER, C. C.: Formulae Confutationis A. C. Lat. German. Lips., 1808, 8vo.--<br />

MüLLER, J. J.: Hist. v. Protest. u. A. C. Jena, 1705, 4to. p. 653.--PFAFF: Lib. Symbol. Eccl. Luth.--PLANCK:<br />

Protest. Lehrbeg. III. I. 52 seq.--ROTERMUND: Gesch. d. z. Augsb. übergeb. Glaubensbek. Hannov. 1829, 8vo.<br />

109-116.--SALIG.: I. 224 seq. 378 seq.--SECKENDORF: Hist. Luth. II. 171.--SEMLER: Apparat. in L. S. p. 73.--<br />

SPIEKER, C. G.: Conf. Fidei. Confutatio., etc. Berlin, 1830. 8vo. 149-204.--WALCHII, J. G.: Introd. in L. S.<br />

416. Miscellan. Sacra. 205.--WEBER: Krit. Gesch. II. Vorred., <strong>and</strong> p. 439.

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