Ad insidiosum Lucae Osiandri scriptum

Thus, those who offer foul and bitter wormwood to children first smear the rims of the cup with honey or sugar, so that the harshness of the cup is less felt by them. But nevertheless, Osiander, you should have spoken openly here and explained yourself, just as you are accustomed to do elsewhere; and not dissimulate your sentiment, and—which you rebuke in others—propose your doctrine concerning the Supper of the Lord to our Churches not quite sincerely. For in sum, you want all the Pastors of the Gallican Churches to err most gravely, because we deny that in the holy Supper of the Lord the very flesh of Christ is present in, under, and with (for thus you are accustomed to write and speak among yourselves) the signs themselves, that is, with Bread and Wine, in a σωματικῇ παρουσίᾳ bodily presence manner, and is eaten by the mouth of the body. For that is what you yourself and yours think; and thus, where you do not dissimulate your sentiment, you speak openly. Wherefore, you write below, even that unworthy and impious men and hypocrites approaching the Supper of the Lord chew the most sacred body of the Lord with their impious and unclean mouth. And in your other writing, namely against Sturmius, you write thus: Let us now see what is proposed to be chewed and drunk in the Supper of the Lord together with the Bread and Wine, and is truly received by all those partaking of the Supper. The Evangelist Matthew says, While they were eating, Jesus took Bread, etc., and then you conclude, The remaining Evangelists, Mark, Luke, and the Apostle Paul, agree with the Evangelist Matthew. Wherefore, from the institution of Christ we believe that with the Bread we receive the body of Christ with the MOUTH.

Summary of the doctrine which Osiander proposes to the Gallican Churches.

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Osiander in Antisturmius.