CHAPTER II.
REPLY TO THE GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE PLEA.
In replying to the general observations, which constitute the introduction of the Plea, we shall pursue the order of their occurrence.
"We shall, in this short tract," says the author, "not speak of the objections, which in the Definite Platform are set forth against some errors, contained in some other symbolical books of the Lutheran Church, but we shall confine ourselves exclusively to the errors pointed out in the Augsburg Confession, the work of Luther and Melancthon themselves, and _the only one of our Confessions which was universally received as such, by the whole Lutheran Church in all parts of the world_," p.

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This concession is no less honorable to the reverend author, than the fact itself is important in the discussion of the subject before us.

As the contrary has frequently been asserted in this country, in the face of history, it seems proper to advert to its details.

The facts in the case are the following: _The Form of Concord_ was rejected in Denmark, Sweden, Hessia, Pommerania, Holstein, Anhalt, and the cities of Strasburg, Frankfurt a.m.Speier, Worms, Nuerenberg, Magdeburg, Bremen, Dantzig, &c.

For particulars see Koellner's Symbolik, Vol.