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Rh impious. Believe what Saint Paul says that those who are unworthy also receive the body of our Lord, as long as the institution and the word of the Lord are not changed; about this point we shall not quarrel. Because you stand thus, we are one, and we acknowledge and receive you as our dear brethren in the Lord." Later on, when the formula for the Concord had been signed, he said, in farewell: "Let us bury that which has happened on both sides and weigh it down with a stone." Th. Kolde has given us, in the 21st volume of Haucks' Realenzyklopædie a detailed account of the respective events occurring between the religious discussion at Marburg and the Wittenberg-Concord, as well as an account of these two happenings themselves. Here we also learn why, in spite of all this, a real union was not achieved later on, why even before Luther's death the dispute with the Swiss broke out anew.

21. Luther and England

In the year 1536, not only the representatives of upper Germany appeared with Luther in Wittenberg, but a deputation from England came in order to treat with the Wittenberg theologians. The object of their coming was no less important than that of ascertaining how closely the German evangelicals could approach the representatives of Henry VIII in doctrine, so that a nation like England might enter into the Smalkald Union. G. Mentz has edited for the first time the "Articles of Wittenberg" of 1536, and has therewith documentarily proven how dependent the 48 articles of Edward VI, and therefore, also the 39 articles of Elizabeth, are upon the Augsburg Confession. For the "Wittenberg Articles" have their origin in the Augustana. Many times they only quote