[1471] Page 337 f.
[1472] “Abolent veros cultus, videlicet exercitia fidei luctantis cum desperatione.” See above, p. 345, how Melanchthon frequently emphasises the terrors which precede the working of the evangelical faith.
[1473] Page 340 ff.
[1474] Kolde, in the Introduction to the 10th edition of the “Symbolische Bücher,” p. 1. “This was the only official Confession agreed to at the Schmalkalden Convention.” When Luther caused his bitter “Artickel”—which had not been accepted at Schmalkalden at all (above, p. 431)—to be printed in 1538 (“Werke,” Erl. ed., 25², p. 163 ff.), he nevertheless spoke of them as an official deed agreed to at the Schmalkalden Convention, declaring: “They have also been agreed upon unanimously by our followers and accepted, so that—were the Pope and his adherents ever so bold as to hold a Council, without lying and deceit but in all sincerity and truth, as he ought to do—these Articles ought to be publicly put forward as the confession of our faith.” Was he really ignorant of the actual facts of the case? It was surely to his interest, after the Conference of Schmalkalden, to inform himself exactly of the fate of his Articles. Kolde, ibid., p. 61, is of opinion that he evidently made the above assertion “in ignorance of the negotiations which had taken place at Schmalkalden during his illness.” Kolde, moreover, shows that Luther’s publication did not even agree with the original as “presented at Schmalkalden”; but contained various additions, some of them of considerable length, though “without any alteration of meaning.”
[1475] “Symbolische Bücher,” ibid., p. xlix. f.
[1476] Ellinger, ibid., p. 346.
[1477] “De ecclesiæ autoritate et de veterum scriptis.” Kawerau, “Versuche,” p. 50.
[1478] One of the terms there used by Luther; “Werke,” Weim. ed., 30, 3, p. 282; Erl. ed., 25², p. 12.
[1479] Ellinger, ibid., p. 527, on the preface of 1546, reprinted in “Corp. ref.,” 6, p. 190 seq.
[1480] Ellinger, ibid., p. 528.