On the Restraint of the First Electors of Saxony in Adopting and Establishing Luther's Doctrine, Volume 2

What, therefore, he determines and judges, he has made plain in many places, though he devoted effort to surveying the affairs managed by the Prince Elector, JOACHIM II. Here, here you may read the history of the reformed sacraments inserted, and in the same place, reproaches—the memory of which seemed long ago to have been buried and entombed by the age of time—are brought back into the light and into view. For although we have no doubt that the Author, in setting forth the affairs of the House of Brandenburg, consulted archives and instruments of public documents, it is yet so far from us to be persuaded that he, while writing the history of the asserted religion, drew from public acts and writers of approved faith, that it is exceedingly clear to anyone, even those who taste these matters with only their fingertips, how much he has deviated and wandered from the uncorrupted monuments of those times, and how many things—besides MAIMBOURG, VARILLAS, and others overcome by prejudices against the pupils of the purer doctrine—he has borrowed, especially from LOUIS MORÉRI, whom he even praises. Lest any doubt remain, we shall provide the summary of those things he has brought forward in support of this opinion at the end: "I can guarantee the authenticity of the facts that are reported in this little work. The Archives, the Chronicles, and several Authors who have written on these matters are the sources from which I have drawn."