Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

that the Bohemian Confession was "conformable to
the doctrines of the Gospel."
This judgment silenced for a time the Lutheran
attacks on the purity of the Bohemian creed; but
this good understanding being once more
disturbed, the Bohemian Church in 1568 sent a
delegation to Wittemberg, to submit their
Confession to the theological faculty of its
university. Again their creed was fully approved of,
and this judgment carrying great weight with the
Lutherans, the attacks on the Bohemians from that
time ceased, and the negotiations for union went
prosperously forward.
At last the negotiations bore fruit. In 1569, the
leading nobles of the three communions, having
met together at the Diet of Lublin, resolved to take
measures for the consummation of the union. They
were the more incited to this by the hope that the
king, who had so often expressed his desire to see
the Protestant Churches of his realm become one,
would thereafter declare himself on the side of
Protestantism. It was resolved to hold a Synod or
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