Ad Nicolai Selnecceri librum, qui inscribitur Necessaria et brevis repetitio, etc. in quo exegesis saxonica oppugnatur, brevis, modesta et necessaria Lamberti Danaei responsio

Furthermore, it comes to mind that saying: maten de pleionon poieisthai, hoti de brachéōn dynatai It is in vain to explain at greater length what can be explained in fewer words. For memory must be relieved in so many and such manifold writings, already repeated so often regarding this very doctrine of the Lord's Supper, not exhausted. Therefore, since in both of those books of Selneccer nothing else is done than what is in the old proverb, namely that the Sun is Apollo and Apollo is the Sun, I thought it better to stick to the shorter and, especially, well-meditated writing. This reason also followed, that the sources of these most miserable and indeed most fatal controversies of the Church of God are best known from this very book, and the bile that stirs those stings under Selneccer’s breast is understood, and finally, it is perceived whence so many tears have now been spread throughout not only Saxony but Germany itself, from this, I say, script which is prior by nature, that which was strongly dissembled in the Confutatio accusationum Refutation of accusations and in the hysteron proteron latter-first order. Therefore, led by these causes, I thought that this one should rather be taken into hand. I shall treat this so modestly and gently that Selneccer cannot justly complain of any injury dealt by me against him. For I shall put forward Selneccer's own words, to which I will subsequently attach my responses. And indeed, God favoring, I shall explain all things so that any Christian, provided he approaches apathes without passion/dispassionately, may easily judge for himself thereafter from the word of God regarding the doctrine of both, as to which is truer.