Schaff - History of the Christian Church Vol. 8 - Media Sabda Org

Ed. 1540.
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“De Coena Domini docent, quod CUM PANE ET VINO VERE EXHIBEANTUR
corpus et sanguis Christi vescentibus in Coena Domini.”
Ed. 1530.
“Concerning the Lord’s Supper, they teach that the body find blood of
Christ are truly present [under the form of bread and wine], and are
distributed to those that eat in the Lord’s Supper. And they disapprove of
those who teach otherwise.” [In the German text: “Wherefore also the
opposite doctrine is rejected.”]
Ed. 1540.
“Concerning the Lord’s Supper, they teach that with bread and wine are
truly exhibited the body and blood of Christ to those who eat in the Lord’s
Supper.”
[Disapproval of dissenting views is omitted.]
It is to this revised edition of the document, and to its still living author,
that Calvin confidently appealed.
“In regard to the Confession of Augsburg,” he says in his Last Admonition
to Westphal, “my answer is, that, as it was published at Ratisbon (1541), it
does not contain a word contrary to our doctrine. f969 If there is any
ambiguity in its meaning, there cannot be a more competent interpreter
than its author, to whom, as his due, all pious and learned men will readily
pay this honor. To him I boldly appeal; and thus Westphal with his vile
garrulity lies prostrate .... If Joachim wishes once for all to rid himself of all
trouble and put an end to controversy, let him extract one word in his favor
from Philip’s lips. The means of access are open, and the journey is not so
very laborious, to visit one of whose consent he boasts so loftily, and with
whom he may thus have familiar intercourse. If I shall be found to have
used Philip’s name rashly, there is no stamp of ignominy to which I am not
willing to submit.
“The passage which Westphal quotes, it is not mine to refute, nor do I
regard what, during the first conflict, before the matter was clearly and
lucidly explained, the importunity of some may have extorted from one
who was then too backward in giving a denial. It were too harsh to lay it
down as a law on literary men, that after they have given a specimen of