Note 13.  Page 32.

Note 14.  Eure Apologia habe ich empfangen, und nimmt mich wunder was ihr meynet, dasz ihr begehrt zu wissen, was und wie viel man den paepstlichen soll nachgeben. Fuer meine person ist ihnen allzuviel nachgegeben in der Apologia (Confession).  Luther’s Werke, B. XX., p. 185, Leipsic Edit.

Note 15.  See his letter to Camerarius, dated June 26, 1530.  “Ich veraenderte und gosz das meiste taeglich um, und wuerde noch mehreres geaedert [sic] haben, wenn es unsere Raethe erlaubt hatten.”  Niemeyer, p. 28.

Note 16.  Melancthon had agreed to the restoration of the power of the bishops, and evidently, as seen by his letter to Luther, of June 26, if Luther had not objected, he would have made some retractions on the celibacy of the clergy, the communion in both kinds and even the private and closet masses.  The Protestants did admit that the saints pray for us in heaven, and that commemorative festivals might be kept to pray God to accept the intercession of these saints; but by no means that our prayers should be addressed to the saints themselves.  Niemeyer, p. 87.

Note 17.  Luther’s Works, Vol.  XX, p. 196.

Note 18.  Gottfried Arnold’s Unpartheische Kirchen und Ketzer Historien,
Vol.  I., p. 809, edit. 2d of 1740.

Note 19.  Doctrine and Discipline of the Synod of South Carolina, pp. 18, 19, published in 1841.

CHAPTER IV. 
CUMULATIVE PROOF OF THE TRUTH OF THE SEVERAL POSITIONS OF THE DEFINITE
SYNODICAL PLATFORM.

The Preamble.

On the subject of the preamble, we will add a few authorities for one or two of its positions, which we have heard called in question.  On page 3, we read:—­

“Subsequently, Luther and his coadjutors still further changed their views on some subjects in that Confession, such as the mass.”  The truth of this position is demonstrated even by the extract from the Smalcald Articles, given on p. 22 of the Platform.  In the Augsburg Confession, Melanchon [sic] says (and Luther approved of it):  “It, is unjustly charged against our churches, that they have abolished the mass.  For it is notorious that the mass is celebrated among us with greater devotion and seriousness than by our opponents.”  But seven years later, in the Smalcald Articles, Luther employs this very different language, which was sanctioned by his coadjutors:  “The mass in the Papal church, must be the greatest and most terrible abomination, since it is directly and strongly opposed to this chief article (of Justification through faith in Christ,)” &c.  Here the contradiction in words is positive and unqualified.  But we must recollect that the term mass here, as will be fully proved hereafter, does not signify the Papal mass in full.  It is a well-known fact, and the Confession itself informs us, that the confessors had long before rejected private and closet masses, and also had rejected the idea