We have not yet received from our opponents the proposed conditions in reference to the _two kinds_ (in the eucharist), marriage and _the_ mass." [Note 23] Here again, who does not see the distinction?
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In a document, which Melancthon prepared for a friend of the chancellor of the bishop of Luettich, in which he states how far they yielded, and also the points in which they could not agree, we find the following: "_Of the two kinds_ .-- Here we excused those (the laity,) who receive one kind alone (that is, merely the bread in the eucharist), for as they do not distribute the sacraments, they have to receive the sacrament as it is given to them." [Note 24] "_Of the mass_ .-- In regard to the mass we have already given our reply: namely, that our party retain the substantials (substantalia,) and principal parts of the mass, so far as the consecration is concerned, &c." [Note 25] "_The mass is not_ a work which, when applied to others, merits grace for them _ex opere operato;_ but according to the confession of the whole church, the _Lord's Supper is_ the sacrament, through which grace is offered to him that receives it, which grace he also really receives, but not by the more external act, but through faith, when he is certain that, in it., grace and pardon of sins are offered." [Note 26] III.

We will add a few short _extracts from other reformers_, written at the time of the Diet, to confirm our position that they also made a distinction between the mass and the eucharist, and that by the former they meant that performance of the priest alone at the altar, which preceded the communion.
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_Aurifaber_, who was a particular personal friend of Luther, and was present at his death.

In his account of the incidents of Luther and his doctrines in the year 1530, speaking of the special committee which was appointed on the 16th of August, consisting of seven members on each side, he remarks: [Note 27] "These assembled and took into consideration the Augsburg Confession of the Protestant States, deliberating on one article after another, and the first day agreed upon eleven articles.