Articuli Anabaptistici, qui in Ecclesia ferri Anabaptist Articles which can not be endured in the Church.

non possunt.

I. Quod Christus carnem et I. First, that Christ did not assanguinem suum, non e Maria sume his flesh and blood of the virgine assumserit, sed e cœlo Virgin Mary, but brought them attulerit. from heaven.

II. Quod Christus non sit ve- II. That Christ is not true God, rus Deus, sed tantummodo cæteris but is merely superior to other saints, sanctis sit superior, quia plura because he has received more gifts Spiritus Sancti dona acceperit, of the Holy Spirit than any other quam alius quispiam homo sanctus. holy man whatsoever.

III. Quod justitia nostra co- III. That our righteousness beram Deo, non in solo Christi fore God does not consist in the merito, sed in renovatione atque merit of Christ alone, but in our adeo in nostra propria probi- renewal, and thus in our own uptate, in qua ambulemus, consistat. rightness in which we walk. Now Ea vero Anabaptistarum justitia this righteousness of the Anabapmagna ex parte electitia et hu- tists consists in great part in a cermanitus excogitata quadam sanc- tain arbitrary and humanly devised timonia constat, et revera nil sanctimony, and in truth is nothaliud est, quam novus quidam ing else than some new sort of monkery.

monachatus.

IV. Quod infantes non bapti- IV. That infants not baptized are zati coram Deo non sint pecca- not sinners before God, but just and tores, sed justi et innocentes, et innocent, and in this their innoin illa sua innocentia, cum usum cence, when they have not as yet rationis nondum habeant, sine the use of reason, may, without bapbaptismo (quo videlicet, ipsorum tism (of which, to wit, in the opinopinione, non egeant) salutem con- ion of the Anabaptists, they have sequantur. Et hoc modo rejici- no need), attain unto salvation. unt totam de peccato originali And in this way they reject the doctrinam, reliqua etiam, quæ ex whole doctrine of original sin, and ea dependent. all the consequences that follow therefrom.

V. Quod infantes baptizandi non sint, donec usum rationis

V. That infants ought not to be baptized until they attain the use

consequantur, et fidem suam ipsi of reason, and are able themselves

profiteri possint.

VI. Quod Christianorum liberi eam ob causam, quia parentibus

to profess their faith.

VI. That the children of Christians, on the ground that they are

Christianis et fidelibus orti sunt sprung of Christian and believing (etiam præter et ante susceptum parents (even apart from and bebaptismum), revera sancti, et in fore the receiving of baptism), are filiorum Dei numero sint ha- in very deed holy, and to be accountbendi. Qua de causa etiam ne- ed as belonging to the children of que Padobaptismum magnifaci- God, for which reason they neither unt, neque id operam dant, ut make much account of the baptism infantes baptizentur, quod cum of children, nor take care to have expressis verbis promissionis di- their children baptized, which convina (Gen. xvii. 7 sqq.) pugnat: flicts with the express words of the ea enim tantum ad eos pertinet, divine promise (Gen. xvii. 7 sqq.): qui foedus Dei observant, illud- for this only holds good to those who observe the covenant of God, and do not contemn it.

que non contemnunt.

VII. Quod ea non sit vera et Christiana Ecclesia, in qua aliqui adhuc peccatores reperiun- sinners are yet found.

VII. That that is not a true Christian Church in which any

tur.

VIII. Quod conciones non sint

VIII. That we ought not to listen

audiendæ ullæ in iis templis, in to any sermons in those churches quibus aliquando Missa Ponti- in which the Papist masses have ficice sunt celebratæ. ever been celebrated.

IX. Quod homo pius nihil pror- IX. That a godly man ought to sus commercii habere debeat cum have no dealings at all with the Ecclesiæ ministris, qui Evange- ministers of the Church who teach lion Christi juxta Augustana the Gospel of Christ according to Confessionis sententiam docent, the tenor of the Augsburg Confeset Anabaptistarum conciones ac sion, and rebuke the preachings and errores reprehendunt, et quod errors of the Anabaptists; and that ejusmodi Ecclesiæ ministris neque it is not lawful either to serve or to servire, neque operam locare liceat, do any work for such ministers of sed quod iidem ut perversores the Church, but that they are to be

verbi divini vitandi et fugiendi | avoided and shunned as perverters

sint.

of the divine Word.

Articuli Anabaptistici, qui in Politia [in der Anabaptist Articles which are intolerable in Polizei] sunt intolerabiles. the Commonwealth.

I. Quod Magistratus officium non sit, sub Novo Testamento, genus vitæ, quod Deo placeat.

II. Quod homo Christianus salva et illæsa conscientia officio Magistratus fungi non possit.

I. That the office of the magistrate is not, under the New Testament, a condition of life that pleases God.

II. That a Christian man can not discharge the office of a magistrate with a safe and quiet conscience.

III. Quod homo Christianus il- III. That a Christian man can læsa conscientia officium Magi- not with a safe conscience adminstratus, rebus ita ferentibus, ad- ister and execute the office of a versus improbos administrare et magistrate, if matters so require, exequi, et subditi potestatem il- against the wicked, nor subjects lam, quam Magistratus a Deo implore for their defense that accepit, ad defensionem implo- power which the magistrate has rare non possint. received of God.

IV. Quod homo Christianus IV. That a Christian man can sana conscientia jusjurandum not with a safe conscience take præstare, et juramento interpo- an oath, nor swear obedience and sito obedientiam et fidem suo fidelity to his prince or magisPrincipi aut Magistratui pro- trate.

mittere nequeat.

V. Quod Magistratus, sub Novo V. That the magistrate, under Testamento, bona conscientia ho- the New Testament, can not with mines facinorosos capitali suppli- a good conscience punish crimicio afficere non possit. nals with death.

Articuli Anabaptistici, qui in Economia Anabaptist Articles which can not be tolerated [Haushaltung] ferri non possunt. in daily life.

I. Quod homo pius non possit I. That a godly man can not conscientia salva proprium tenere with safe conscience hold or pos

et possidere, sed quod is, quic-sess any property, but that whatquid omnino fucultatum habeat, ever means he may possess, he is id totum in commune conferre bound to bestow them all as com[in die Gemein zu geben] debeat.mon good.

II. Quod homo Christianus il- II. That a Christian man can læsa conscientia neque caupona- not with a safe conscience either riam, neque mercaturam exercere, keep an inn, or carry on trade, or aut arma conficere possit [kein forge weapons.

Gastgeber, Kaufmann oder Messerschmidt sein könne].

III. That it is permitted married

III. Quod conjugibus, propter diversam religionem, divortium people who think differently in re

facere, et cum alia persona, quæ in religione non dissentiat, matrimonium contrahere liceat.

ERRORES SCHWENCOFELDIANORUM.

ligion to divorce themselves, and to contract matrimony with some other persons who agree with them. in religion.

ERRORS OF THE SCHWENKFELDIANS.

I. Quod omnes illi, qui Chri- I. That all those who affirm stum, secundum carnem, creatu- Christ, according to the flesh, to ram esse dicunt, non habeant be a creature, have no true knowlveram regnantis cœlestis Regis edge of the heavenly king and his agnitionem. reign.

butes, that Christ, as he is man, is altogether like to the Father and to the Word [Logos] in power, might, maj

II. Quod caro Christi per exal- II. That the flesh of Christ tationem eo modo modo omnes pro- through its exaltation has in such prietates divinas acceperet, ut wise received all the divine attriChristus, quatenus homo est, potentia, virtute, majestate, gloria, Patri et rų Aóyw, per omnia, in gradu et statu essentiæ, omnino esty, in all things, in grade and state æqualis sit, ita, ut jam utriusque of essence, so that henceforth there in Christo naturæ una sit essen- is one essence of both natures in tia, eadem proprietates, eadem voluntas eademque gloria; et quod caro Christi ad Sacrosanctæ Trinitatis essentiam pertineat.

Christ, and the same attributes, the same will, and the same glory; and that the flesh of Christ pertains to the essence of the Blessed Trinity.

III. Quod ministerium verbi, III. That the ministry of the prædicatum et auditu perceptum Word, the Word preached and verbum, non sit instrumentum heard, is not that instrument illud, per quod Deus Spiritus whereby God the Holy Ghost Sanctus homines doceat, saluta- teaches men, and bestows the salremque Christi agnitionem lar- utary knowledge of Christ, and giatur, et conversionem, veram effects conversion, true repentpænitentiam, fidem et novam obe- ance, faith, and new obedience in dientiam in ipsis efficiat. them.

IV. Quod aqua Baptismi non IV. That the water of baptism sit medium, per quod Dominus is not a means whereby the Lord adoptionem in filiis Dei obsignet, seals adoption in the children of God and effects regeneration.

et regenerationem efficiat.

V. Quod panis et vinum in Sacra Cœna non sint organa, per qua et cum quibus Christus corpus et sanguinem suum distribuat.

VI. Quod homo pius, vere per Spiritum Dei regeneratus, legem Dei in hac vita perfecte servare et implere valeat.

VII. Quod non sit vera Ecclesia Christi, in qua non vigeat publica excommunicatio, et solennis aliquis excommunicationis modus, seu, ut vulgo dicitur, processus ordinarius.

VIII. Quod is Ecclesiæ minister alios homines cum fructu docere, aut vera Sacramenta dispensare non possit, qui ipse non sit vere renovatus, renatus et vere justus.

ERROR NOVORUM ARIANORUM.

Quod Christus non sit ve

V. That the bread and wine in the Holy Supper are not organs by which and with which Christ dispenses his body and blood.

VI. That a godly man, truly regenerated by the Spirit of God, has power perfectly to keep and fulfill the law of God in this life.

VII. That that is no true Church of Christ in which there is not in full force public excommunication, and some formal mode, or, as is commonly said, ordinary process of excommunication.

VIII. That a minister of the Church who is not truly renewed, regenerate, and truly righteous, can not fruitfully teach men, or dispense true sacraments.

ERROR OF THE NEW ARIANS.
That Christ is not true, substan-

rus, substantialis, naturalis Deus tial, natural God, of the same es