Ratio ineundae Concordiae inter Ecclesias reformatas, sive, quibus modis occurri possit mirificis artibus, quibus pontificii per quosdam imprudentes theologos universas Christi ecclesias potissimum autem et primum Germanicas pessundare conantur

peace in religion has been restored by the Protestants. For it can be inferred and proven by many examples that alliances have often done more harm than good, and certainly among prudent Princes they are not very necessary, since they well know what is for the use of the Republic and for their own interest. For if someone is not impelled by love of the Republic or by a desire to preserve himself and his own affairs to perform what is requested of him, he will be little moved by the name of an alliance. God, therefore, must be deservedly begged by all pious men with assiduous prayers to move the hearts of the Protestant Kings and Princes and to illuminate their minds with His Spirit, so that they might finally think seriously about the means by which, with the causes of these controversies removed, a certain peace, or at least a tolerable and moderate concord, might be established among them. For with the minds of the parties reconciled and peace restored by the most equitable means, it is to be hoped that the Evangelical Princes will spontaneously and willingly come to each other’s aid (as Christian charity requires) if violence is inflicted upon anyone or if they are manifestly afflicted by injury.

Among the Evangelical churches, the principal controversies are these:
On the Lord’s Supper. On Predestination or the Providence of God.
And on the Person of Christ.

On the Lord's Supper.

There are two main factions among the theologians. The other is that which calls itself Lutheran, the other is that which calls itself Calvinist. The Lutherans, in this chapter, object to the Calvinists that error which they attribute to Zwingli: namely, that they deny the true body of Christ is truly eaten by the pious in the Holy Supper, and His blood truly drunk. But these people respond that it is an impudent calumny. The Calvinists, in turn, call the Lutherans Cyclopes and Capernaites, because they assert that the body of Christ lies hidden in the bread, is taken by the mouth, and (as some put it) is touched by the lips, chewed by the teeth, and descends into the stomach. The Lutherans, however, complain that these words of theirs are maliciously inverted by them and twisted into a foreign sense. Hence, among some theologians, the vi ru-