[American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics by Samuel Simon Schmucker]@TWC D-Link bookAmerican Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics CHAPTER V 20/47
The second day they continued their negotiations and agreed toll [sic] to twenty-one articles.
But on the articles concerning _the mass_, marriage of priests, _the Lord's Supper_, monastic vows and the jurisdiction of the bishops, &c., they could not agree and remained at variance." Here the mass and the Lord's Supper are distinctly classed as different topics. 2.
_Spalatin_, one of the theologians who attended the Elector to Augsburg, in his narrative of what occurred during the diet, giving a brief abstract of the contents of the Augsburg Confession, epitomises the, Xth Article thus: Of the Holy _Sacrament of the true body and blood of Christ_ in the Sacrament of the altar; and the XXIV Article, "of the _Mass_, how it is celebrated amongst us, and the reason why closet masses have been rejected by us." Here again, who does not see that the two are represented as distinct? IV.
We shall close this cumulative mass of evidence for the distinction between the terms mass and eucharist or Lord's supper, at the time of the diet of Augsburg, by an extract from the professed _refutation of the Augsburg Confession_, prepared by the _papists_ during the diet; from which it will be evident, not only that they make this distinction themselves, which no one denies, but that _they understood the Augsburg Condition as making it also_. In their reply to Article XXIV.
of the Confession, (or the III.
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