The real presence of the body and blood of the Saviour in the Eucharist.
Here it is evident that the charge is, that the Confession advocates the _ceremonies_ of the mass, but _not the mass itself_, as has been alleged.
_b_.

In the same connexion it is stated, "These are the _only_ errors contained in the Augsburg Confession." But if these are the only errors charged, then it follows that the error of inculcating the mass itself, or doctrine of the mass, is at all events _not charged in the Platform_, if it is in words even contained in the Confession.
_c_.

The _caption_ in the list of errors on page 21 of the Platform, is not headed the _Mass_, as is the article of the Confession to which it refers; but what the Confession calls mass, the Platform, _with great moderation_, styles _Ceremonies_ of the mass.
_d_.

In the list of errors, the profession of which should exclude from membership in Synods accepting the Platform, we find p.

15, the following: "Whilst we will not admit into our Synod any one who believes in Exorcism, Private Confession and Absolution, or the _Ceremonies_ of the Mass." Here again _Ceremonies_ of the mass are stated, but if the Platform taught that the Mass itself is inculcated in the Confession, believers in the Mass would, _a fortiori_, have also been mentioned as excluded.
What then is the meaning of the sentence on page 22 of the Platform, "In refutation of the _tolerant views of the mass_ above expressed, &c ?" Why, of course we should suppose it meant those views of the mass which the Platform charges against the Confession, as taught in these passages, namely, retaining and approving the _ceremonial_ of the mass, which constituted by far the greater part of the public mass, so called, although its nature had been changed by denying the _sacrificial_ character of the minister's act of self-communion, and its being performed for the benefit of _others_, either living or dead.
We think also, some objectionable parts of the ceremonial itself were changed, although the Confession asserts that the addition of some German hymns, along with the Latin, was the only alteration made.