A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved

At the conference of Wittenberg, an. 1536. where were present Capito, Bucerus, Musculus, and other grave Divines of higher Germany; on the other side, Luther, Melanchthon, Pomeranus, Cruciger, in which Luther said, brethren, If ye teach and believe that the true body and true blood of the Lord is exhibited in the Supper, & quod hee percept•o vere fiat, and that truly or really there is a receiving thereof, we agree as brethren; but the truth is, there were contrary faiths touching the presence of Christs body and blood in the Sacrament; and therefore I humbly conceive all such General confessions as must be a coat to cover two contrary faiths, is but a daubing of the matter with untempered mortar; much dealing like this was in the Council of Trent, in which neither Papist nor Protestant was condemned, and yet the truth suffered; I speak not this as if each side could exactly know every lith and vein of the controversy, for we prophesy but in part, but to show I cannot but abominate truth and falsehood, patched up in one confession of faith; for if two men should agree in such a bargain, A covenants with B to give him a ship full of spices; B promises to give an hundred thousand pounds for these spices, A believes they are metaphorical spices he gives, B believes they are the most real and excellent spices of Egypt; B promises a hundred thousand pounds of field stones, A expects good, real, and true money; this were but mutual juggling of one with another. It were another consideration, if both sides agreeing in this General confession were ignorant, and did neither know nor believe any sense that were destructive to the true and sound sense of the Confession, for then they might be saved ⟨p. 68⟩by, or in one and the same faith of this General Confession, whereas now the contrary senses of this Confession make them now not one General, but two particular […], and contradictory faiths; for the question is, whether the side believing the General Confession with a sense in the consequence, that destroys the text, have any faith at all of this General Confession.

At the conference of Wittingberge, an. 1536. where were present Capito, Bucerus, Musculus, and other grave Divines of higher Germany; on the other side, Luther, Melanthon, Pomeranus, Cruciger, in which Luther said, brethren, If ye teach and believe that the true body and true blood of the Lord is exhibited in the Supper, & quod hee percept•o vere fiat, and that truely or really there is a receiving thereof, we agree as brethren; but the truth is, there were contrary faiths touching the presence of Christs body and blood in the Sacrament; and therefore I humbly conceive all such Generall confessions as must be a coat to cover two contrary faiths, is but a daubing of the matter with untempered mortar; much dealing like this was in the Councell of Trent, in which neither Papist nor Protestant was condemned, and yet the truth suffered; I speake not this as if each side could exactly know every lith and veine of the controversie, for we prophesie but in part, but to shew I cannot but abominate truth and falsehood, patched up in one confession of faith; for if two men should agree in such a bargaine, A covenants with B to give him a ship full of spices; B promises to give an hundreth thousand pounds for these spices, A believes they are metaphoricall spices he gives, B believes they are the most reall and excellent spices of Aegypt; B promises a hundreth thousand pounds of field stones, A expects good, reall, and true money; this were but mutuall jugling of one with another. It were another consideration, if both sides agreeing in this Generall confession were ignorant, and did neither know nor believe any sense that were destructive to the true and sound sense of the Confession, for then they might be saved