Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

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TO ALL REFORMED
CHURCHES OF GOD IN FRANCE, AND TO
those who embrace the pure doctrine of the Gospel,
who are scattered throughout all of France,
Called Saints: as well as to all
who call upon the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ in Belgium, and in every place:
Grace to you, and Peace from God the Father, and our
Lord Jesus Christ.

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I HAVE READ, dearest Brothers, the admonition recently written to you by Lucas Osiander (which he calls pious and faithful, but which I call a crafty and cunning plan), so that he might entice into his own opinion those of you whom he could not previously frighten with open condemnation and abusive writings in his Antisturmio a polemical work by Osiander against Johannes Sturm. He moves every stone laboriously and turns himself into all these forms, now threatening, now flattering, so that just as those who once led the Galatians away from the spirit of the Gospel to the flesh of circumcision boasted of their flesh: so this man, once he has taught you to embrace a carnal rather than a spiritual manducation eating/partaking of the body of Christ, might triumph over you French as if you were conquered by him through Germany.