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

CHRIST IN THE SUPPER.

The Church for the obedience of Christ, with one integrity... The marginal text is heavily fragmented and appears to be a list of theological or ecclesiastical duties concerning the obedience and integrity of the Church, but the Latin is too broken to provide a coherent translation.

If [the matter] is dragged into a public debate of the cause by skirmishes, the thing will be settled in a few words. For as to his claim that the laziness of Princes is the obstacle preventing a pious Synod from being convened to resolve dissensions, I wish he himself, along with the furies of his like, did not block all avenues of concord. He himself does not hide this a little later, when he denies that any debate between us should be instituted. What pious Synod, therefore, will be found to his liking, except one in which two hundred companions, or thereabouts, well-to-do because their zeal is more fervent, pronounce us to be worse than Papists, and more execrable, according to a custom long since worn out among them? This is the confession they demand: that all investigation be rejected, and that they stubbornly defend the fiction that rashly escaped them. Certainly, although the devil has fascinated their minds in a horrible way, it appears clearly that our doctrine is attacked by them more out of pride than out of error. But because he pretends to be the patron of the Church, and in order to deceive the simple with a deceitful mask, he occasionally arrogates to himself the person of all who teach correctly. I would like to know by whose mandate he undertook this patronage. Everywhere he rattles these words: We teach: This is our opinion: So we speak: Thus we assert. Let the hodgepodge that Westphal has heaped together be read, and a wonderful inconsistency 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 he confirms it with his own vote: which is read in the recantation 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.