Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

Articles of the Christian faith concerning the Ascension of Christ into the heavens, and his return to us in the final judgment of the Lord, you must also admit with us, Osiander, that Consubstantiation, as a fountain of great heresies, must be cast out of the true Churches of God. In the second place, we also disapprove of that very thing in the Papists, that they have withdrawn and denied the other part of the Lord's Supper, namely, the cup, to the Laity (as they call them), that is, to the greater part of the Church of God.

Thirdly, that the same Papists turn the Supper of the Lord to a clearly blasphemous use. For they make a sacrifice out of the Sacrament, and instead of it being the application of the remission of our sins once made by Christ, the Papists desire it to be an expiation of those same sins of ours. And so they call this both a sacrifice of the body of Christ and an expiatory [sacrifice], and they repeat it daily.

Fourthly and finally, we condemn that very thing, that the Papists desire these signs, namely the Bread and Wine of the Lord's Supper, to be and remain Sacraments outside of their use. And so they carry them around in processions, and consecrate them in a magical manner, and store them, and guard them, and adore them. From which fact Osiander himself also recognizes that these signs are wrongly called an adorable sacrament, by whomever it may have been said.

These, therefore, are the things which, since he himself concedes are gravely and rightly rebuked in the Papists, your pastors must be praised for teaching that the same things are truly to be condemned. But concerning the rest, a grave controversy remains between us.