[1221] On June 13, 1530, “Briefwechsel,” 8, p. 35.
[1222] On June 30, 1530, p. 50.
[1223] “Die Versuche,” p. 65.
[1224] Ibid., p. 10.
[1225] This proposition stands at the head of the 1535 edition of the “Loci.” He had intended in this work, so he says, “colligere doctrinam catholicam ecclesiae Christi,” as taught by those witnesses. “Corp. ref.,” 21, p. 333. In 1540 he declared further that the Churches accepting the Augsburg Confession held fast to the “perpetuus consensus veræ ecclesiæ omnium temporum,” as to that of the Prophets and Apostles; Ambrose, Augustine, etc., agreed with them—if only they were rightly understood. “Corp. ref.,” 11, p. 494.
[1226] Paolo Vergerio, January 13, 1541, “Corp. ref.,” 4, p. 22.
[1227] Kawerau, “Versuche,” p. 66 f.
[1228] Ibid., p. 33. Cordatus to Cruciger, August 20, 1536, “Corp. ref.,” 3, p. 159. In a letter to the latter of September 17, 1536, he bases his blame of Melanchthon on his praise of Luther (“Præceptor noster, qui est doctor doctorum theologiæ. Amen.”), to whose doctrine it was necessary to hold fast.
[1229] “Vita Erasmi,” ed. Lugd. Batav., 1615, p. 259. Kawerau, ibid., p. 17.
[1230] Kawerau, ibid., p. 31.