teachings of the Confession with the subsequent practice of Luther and the churches; yea, it has appeared to us, in the course of our recent examinations on these subjects, that the Augsburg Confession was not even up to the progress of reform attained by churches at that day, and this may be one reason why Luther told Melancthon he had yielded too much to the Papists in the Confession.  In our Lutheran Manual, we have simply presented the article of the Confession in full, in juxtaposition with the Smalcald Article, treating of the same subject; and have done so without note or comment, except the remark, that the latter refutes the tolerant views of the mass expressed in the former.  We can, therefore, see no inconsistency between what we have published on this subject at distant intervals, certainly much less than might have occurred to the most careful and conscientious writer, on a subject so closely connected with the fluctuations of language.  Doubtless, by taking detached portions of a paragraph apart from the limitations connected with them, and falsely imputing sinister motives to almost every sentence, it in possible to make the most correct author contradict himself and misrepresent his subject; but with such men, whether their misrepresentations arise from deliberate design or inveterate general habit, we cannot consent to debate.  The injury done is rather to the cause of Christ and of truth than ourselves, and we can well afford to commit the case for adjudication to that Omniscient Being, “who judgeth righteously.”

Note 1.  See Luther’s Works, Leipsic ed., Vol. xxi, pp. 447, 448.

Note 2.  See Luther’s letter to Prince George in his Works, Vol. xxi., p. 430.

Note 3.  Vol. iii., p. 114.

Note 4.  See Murdock, Edition of Moshiem’s History, Vol. iii, page 53,
Harper’s edition.

Note 5.  Fuhrmann’s Lexicon, Vol. iii., p. 3.

Note 6.  Siegel’s Manual, Vol. iii., p. 362.

Note 7.  Ibid, p. 366.

Note 8.  Ibid, p. 375.

Note 9.  Luther’s Works, Vol. xxii., p. 233-37.

Note 10.  Ibid, p. 237.

Note 11.  Ibid, p. 240.

Note 12.  Ibid. p. 338.

Note 13.  Luther’s Works, Vol. xix., p. 666.

Note 14.  Ibid., Vol. xx., p. 3.

Note 15.  Luther’s Works, Vol. xx., p. 195.

Note 16.  Ibid., p. 257.

Note 17.  Luther’s Works, Vol. xxi., p. 63.

Note 18.  The edition from which all our translations of Melancthon’s Letters are made is that of Niemeyer, published at Halle, in 1830, entitled Philip Melancthon in Jahre der Augsburgischen Confession.

Note 19.  Niemeyer’s Melancthon, pp. 41-43.

Note 20.  Ibid., p. 56.

Note 21.  Niemeyer’s Melancthon, p. 71.

Note 22.  Niemeyer’s Melancthon, p. 76.

Note 23.  Niemeyer, p. 90, 91.

Note 24.  Koethe’s Melancthon’s Works, Vol.  I., p. 263.