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Report and answer to the primary chapters, points, and passages of the Bavarian-Anhaltine Secret Chancery.

The First Chapter.

Report and answer.

The compiler of the Bavarian-Anhaltine Chancery The Cancellaria Bavarica was a piece of Catholic propaganda that claimed to have "discovered" secret documents proving a Protestant conspiracy. claims on page 21, at the verse beginning "As for the first," etc., that the United parties have until now been unable to show or name any specifics original: specialia as to who, where, and in what way any plots were made against the Estates of the Augsburg Confession The primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, presented in 1530., but have instead remained stuck in generalities. To this the answer is that in Paul Windeck’s A Catholic polemicist known for his hardline stance against Protestants. book, enough may be found regarding how one should proceed against all Protestants in general original: in genere and across the board. And Schoppius Caspar Schoppe, a controversial convert to Catholicism and a fierce counter-reformation publicist., a Spanish and Austrian Counselor, in The Trumpet of the Holy War original Latin: classico belli sacri, chapter 13, exhorts His Imperial Majesty himself that he should, in imitation of Otto the First original Latin: ad imitationem Ottonis Primi, have the Princes—those who have seized the monasteries and are disobedient to both His Imperial Majesty and the Holy Church—hanged on the gallows. Now, what is said regarding everyone in general original: in genere applies to each individual in particular original: in specie.

It is also notorious meaning well-known or a matter of public record that at the Imperial Diet original: Reichstag at Regensburg in the year 1594, and at all subsequent ones, it was openly preached to the faces of the Evangelical Protestant Estates (and the ambassadors and envoys of those absent) by the Jesuits and Capuchins that His Imperial Majesty could no longer with a good conscience tolerate the Protestant heretics in the Empire; that it was finally time to draw the sword against them; that the opportunities and means were at hand; and that the Protestants among themselves were so divided—and some so complacent, others so helpless and unprepared original Latin: imparati—that they would be easily overrun and brought back to the obedience of the Roman Seat The Papacy. In such a manner