15/47 His defence of the _Mass_ was very frosty." [Note 20] Here we find the eucharist and the mass spoken of as separate things, and the discussion of the one represented as silly, and that of the other frosty. In a letter to Luther, dated August 22d, he thus writes: "Yesterday we closed the discussion, or rather the quarrel (Gezaenk) which has been conducted before the umpires. The third point was the question of merit, &c. Then he came to the _two kinds_ (in the eucharist). Here he exerted himself to the utmost to prove that _both_ kinds are not commanded. |