Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

CONCERNING THE SUPPER OF THE LORD.

We clearly agree with Osiander in these four things: First, that the Transubstantiation of Bread and Wine into the very body and blood of the Lord, introduced by the Papists, is a monstrous and detestable thing. From which it follows that, because the same absurdities—nay, indeed, some things even more blasphemous—follow from the consubstantiation of the flesh and blood of Christ with the Bread and Wine as signs of the Lord's Supper (which Osiander nevertheless attempts to introduce into our Churches), we rightly judge consubstantiation also to be both monstrous and to be condemned for the same reasons. For Consubstantiation itself, just as Transubstantiation, is an invention of the Papists and the product of Peter d’Ailly, the Roman Cardinal, as your own people, Osiander, also admit. Wherefore, if you rightly reject Transubstantiation with us as heretical—that is, contrary to the truth of the flesh of Christ and the Articles of the Christian faith concerning the Ascension of Christ into the heavens and his return to us in the final judgment—it is necessary that you also admit with us that Consubstantiation, as a fountain of great heresies, must be cast out of the true Churches of God.