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French ed. L’accord passé, etc., Gen., 1551. In Opera, VII. 689–748.
The Latin text also in Niemeyer’s Collectio Conf, pp. 191–217. A
German translation (Die Zuericher Uebereinkunft) in Bickel’s
Bekenntnissschriften der evang. reform. Kirche, pp. 173–181. Comp.
the correspondence of Calvin with Bullinger, Farel, etc., concerning the
Consensus.—Calvin’s polemical writings against Joachim Westphal,
namely, Defensio sanae et orthodoxae doctrinae de sacramentis,
Geneva, 1554, Zuerich, 1555; Secunda Defensio ... contra Westphali
calumnias, Gen., 1556; and Ultima Admonitio ad Westphalum, Gen.,
1557. In Opera, IX. 1–120, 137–252. Lastly, his book against
Tilemann Hesshus (Hesshusen), Dilucida Explicatio sanae doctrinae
de vera participatione carnis et sanguinis Christi in sacra Coena, ad
discutiendas Heshusii nebulas, Gen., 1561. In Opera, IX. 457–524. (In
the Amsterdam ed., Tom. IX. 648–723.) Klebiz of Heidelberg, Beza,
and Pierre Boquin also took part in the controversy with Hesshus.
II. For a comparative statement of the eucharistic views of Luther,
Zwingli, and Calvin, see this History, vol. VI. 669–682; and Creeds of
Christendom, I. 455 sqq.; 471 sqq. Calvin’s doctrine has been fully set
forth by EBRARD in fils Dogma v. heil. Abendmahl, II. 402–525, and
by NEVIN in his Mystical Presence, Philad., 1846, pp. 54–67; and in the
“Mercersburg Review” for September, 1850, pp. 421–548 (against Dr.
Hodge in the “Princeton Review” for 1848). Comp. also §§ 132–134
below; HENRY, P. I. ch. XIII.; and STAEHELIN, II. 189 sqq.
In the eucharistic controversy, which raged with such fury in the age of the
Reformation, and was the chief cause of separation in its ranks, Calvin
consistently occupied from the beginning to the end the position of a
mediator and peacemaker between the Lutherans and Zwinglians, between
Wittenberg and Zuerich.
The way for a middle theory was prepared by the Tetrapolitan or Swabian
Confession, drawn up by Martin Bucer, a born compromiser, during the
Diet of Augsburg, 1530, f863 and by the Wittenberg Concordia, 1536, which
for a while satisfied the Lutherans, but was justly rejected by the Swiss.
Calvin published his theory in its essential features in the first edition of the
Institutes (1536), more fully in the second edition (1539), then in a special
tract written at Strassburg. He defended it in various publications, and
adhered to it with his usual firmness. It was accepted by the Reformed
Churches, and never rejected by Luther; on the contrary, he is reported to