But that both Luther and Melancthon did entertain some erroneous views in 1530, some of which are taught in the Augsburg Confession, namely, those specified in the Platform, is affirmed by the great body of our American Lutheran Church.
"The errors are not, on the side of the Augsburg Confession, but on the side of those _who agitate our Lutheran Church_ with the introduction of a fatherless and motherless child, the Definite Platform." To this we reply, the Platform was publicly adopted by three or four Synods in the West, within a few weeks after its publication.

As to its authorship, we never denied having prepared it, at the urgent request of some of those brethren, on the plan agreed on by them, and some Eastern brethren of the very first respectability.

It was carefully revised by ourselves and Dr.B.Kurtz, and we have not yet found a single one of its positions refuted.

That the request was made and complied with, will not be regarded as discreditable to either party by impartial judges, after the smoke of battle shall have disappeared, and the vision of men again be unobstructed.

As to the friends of the Platform being agitators of the church, we regard the supposition as erroneous.