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Wittenberg Concord, touching the Supper of the Lord, entered into by<br />

Bucer, Capito, Musculus, <strong>and</strong> others originally of the Zwinglian party, <strong>and</strong><br />

LUTHER, MELANCTHON, CRUCIGER, BUGENHAGEN,<br />

MENIUS, <strong>and</strong> MYCONIUS. In this CONCORD, both united in<br />

declaring: 478<br />

1. "That according to the words of Irenaeus, there are two things in<br />

this Sacrament,--a heavenly <strong>and</strong> an earthly. <strong>The</strong>y believe, therefore, <strong>and</strong><br />

teach, that with (cum) the bread <strong>and</strong> wine, the body <strong>and</strong> blood of Christ are<br />

truly <strong>and</strong> essentially present, imparted (exhiberi), <strong>and</strong> taken.<br />

2. "And although they disapprove of Transubstantiation, <strong>and</strong> do not<br />

believe that the body of Christ is locally included in the bread, or that it is<br />

in any other wise (alioqui, sonst) united corporeally with the bread, apart<br />

from the participation of the Sacrament, yet they confess <strong>and</strong> believe, that<br />

through the Sacramental Unity, the bread is Christ's body; that is, they<br />

hold that when the bread is given the body of Christ is truly present at the<br />

same time, <strong>and</strong> truly given.<br />

3. "To the unworthy also are truly imparted (exhiberi) the body <strong>and</strong><br />

blood of Christ; but such receive it to judgment; for they abuse the<br />

Sacrament, by receiving it without true repentance <strong>and</strong> faith.<br />

4. "For it was instituted to testify that the grace <strong>and</strong> benefits of Christ<br />

are applied to those who receive it; <strong>and</strong> that they are truly inserted into<br />

Christ's body, <strong>and</strong> washed by His blood, who truly repent, <strong>and</strong> comfort<br />

themselves by faith in Christ.<br />

5. "<strong>The</strong>y confess that they will hold <strong>and</strong> teach in all articles what has<br />

been set forth ii the Articles of the Confession" (the Augsburg) "<strong>and</strong> the<br />

Apology of the Evangelical Princes."<br />

Heidelberg Discussion, 1560.<br />

In the HEIDELBERG DISCUSSION (1560), the Fifteenth <strong>The</strong>sis<br />

maintained by the Lutheran divines was this: "We repudiate also those<br />

gross <strong>and</strong> monstrous opinions which some falsely impute to us, to wit,<br />

Popish transubstantiation, local inclusion, extension or expansion of the<br />

body of<br />

478 Chytraeus: Hist. A. C. Lat., 1578, 680. Germ., 1580, 374. French, 1582, 497. Seckendorf: Hist. Luth., lib. iii.,<br />

p. 133. Loescher: Hist. Motuum, i. 205. Rudelbach: Ref. Luth. u. Union, 669.

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