Dilucida explicatio sanae doctrinae de vera participatione carnis & sanguinis Christi in sacra coena, ad discutiendas Heshusii nebulas

CHRISTI IN COENA.

[...disputes] to a serious examination of the case, the matter will be settled in a few words. For as to his claim that the sluggishness of princes is an obstacle to a pious Synod being called to pacify dissensions, I wish he himself did not obstruct all approaches to concord with the furies of his own kind. Which he himself does not hide a little later, while he denies that any dispute should be instituted between us. What pious Synod, therefore, will be found by his judgment, except one in which two hundred cronies, or thereabouts, are going to be present, because their zeal is more fervent, and who, according to their custom long since worn out among them, pronounce us to be worse than Papists and more execrable? This is the confession they demand: having rejected all knowledge, to defend stubbornly the invention that escaped them rashly. Certainly, although the devil has fascinated their minds in a horrible way, it appears clearly that our doctrine is opposed by them more out of pride than out of error. But because he pretends to be a patron of the Church, and so that he may deceive the simple with a deceitful mask, he arrogates to himself the common persona of all who teach rightly: I would like to know by whose command he undertook this patronage. Everywhere he blusters with these words: "We teach," "This is our opinion," "Thus we speak," "Thus we assert." If one reads the farrago which Westphal piled up, a strange repugnance will occur there. And lest we seek an example from further away, Westphal boldly affirms that the body of Christ is ground by the teeth, and confirms it with his own support: which is read in the palinode of Berengarius in Gratian. This does not please Heshusius, who wants it to be eaten by the mouth, yet not touched by the teeth, and he strongly disapproves of those gross modes of eating. Yet he inculcates that "We assert" of his, just as if he were the proctor of the [entire] university.