A clear explanation of sound doctrine concerning the true participation of the flesh & blood of Christ in the sacred Supper, for the purpose of dispersing the mists of Heshusius.

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Therefore, this condition, which has been divinely imposed upon me, must be borne patiently: that forward, wicked, and rabid men everywhere, as if by a conspiracy, vomit their virulence primarily upon me. Indeed, they do not spare other most excellent men, but tear them apart while they are alive and lacerate the names of the dead. Yet they rush upon me with a more violent attack for no other reason than that Satan, whose slaves they are, seeing that my labors are more useful to the Church of Christ, incites them the more ardently to oppress me. I omit the old brawlers whose calumnies are already obsolete. Recently, a certain Staphylus Friedrich Staphylus, a former Protestant who converted to Catholicism, a foul apostate, emerged, who vomited more curses upon me—never having been provoked by a word—than upon all others who had depicted his perfidy, his obscene morals, and his depraved character. Behold, from the other side, Nicolaus Gallus a Lutheran theologian has also emitted the screech of an owl against me. Finally, there came forth from another pit Tileman Heshusius a Lutheran polemicist, about which evil man it is better for the readers to pass judgment based on the facts and his own writings than for me to pronounce what I myself think.