Note 1225 — Chapter XVIII · (continued 2)

This proposition stands at the head of the 1535 edition of the “Loci.” He had intended in this work, so he says, “colligere doctrinam catholicam ecclesiae Christi,” as taught by those witnesses. “Corp. ref.,” 21, p. 333. In 1540 he declared further that the Churches accepting the Augsburg Confession held fast to the “perpetuus consensus veræ ecclesiæ omnium temporum,” as to that of the Prophets and Apostles; Ambrose, Augustine, etc., agreed with them—if only they were rightly understood. “Corp. ref.,” 11, p. 494.