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LORD WILHELM,

Duke of Saxony, Jülich, Cleves, and Berg,

Landgrave of Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen,

Count in Mark and Ravensberg, Lord

in Ravenstein,

Lieutenant General of the Army of His Sacred Royal Majesty of Sweden,

Duke Wilhelm IV was a significant military figure who served under the Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the Thirty Years' War.

Most glorious Hero,

His most Merciful Prince and Lord,

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Most Illustrious and Most High Prince, most glorious Hero, most Merciful Lord. Among those arguments original: "ἐπιχειρήματα" (epicheirēmata), a Greek term for logical proofs or points of attack in a debate. by which the Roman Catholics busy themselves to prove the truth of their own Church and the falsehood of ours, not the least is that they demand to have it shown to them, as if with a pointing finger, where the Church was before Luther—whom they have persuaded themselves, by a strong but empty imagination, to be the first author and father of our Church. For since there exist divine and infallible promises concerning the perpetual duration of the Church, they judge that it can be indisputably original: "ἀναμφισβήτως" (anamphisbētōs) concluded from this that our Church is a trifle The text breaks here; the catchword "gatur" completes the Latin word "nugatur," meaning "is a trifle" or "is nonsense.", insofar as it cannot count and name its ancestors descending from the Apostles in a continuous and never-interrupted series, or (as Pistorius Johannes Pistorius (1546–1608) was a prominent convert from Lutheranism to Catholicism who wrote "Hodegeticus," a famous polemical guide used to challenge Protestant claims. in his Hodegeticus, chapter 4, concerning the Church, num-