[149] 1 Tim. iii.; Luc. xii.; Act. i.; Tit. i.; Acts. vi.; Heb. vi.
[150] Joh. x.; Eph. i. 5, 4; Joh. xxi.
[151] Joh. x.; Eph. i. 5, 4; Joh. xxi.
[152] Corp. et Synt. reads after longius: 'Conspiratione pia eorum, qui ex ministris magistratuque delecti sunt, disciplina excludere, vel alia ratione commoda multare tantisper.' etc.
[153] Luc. xxiv.; Hierem. xi.; Act. vi.; 1 Tim. iv.; Eph. vi.; 2 Tim. iv.; Ezech. xxxiv.; 1 Cor. v.; 2 Thess. iii.
[154] Luc. xxiv.; Hierem. xi.; Act. vi.; 1 Tim. iv.; Eph. vi.; 2 Tim. iv.; Ezech. xxxiv.; 1 Cor. v.; 2 Thess. iii.
[155] widergeberliche abweschung.
[156] Tit. iii.; Gen. xvii.; 1 Cor. vii.; Luc. xviii.
[157] Tit. iii.; Gen. xvii.; 1 Cor. vii.; Luc. xviii.
[158] Matt. xxvi.; Joh. vi. 14; 1 Cor. x.
[159] Matt. xxvi.; Joh. vi. 14; 1 Cor. x.
[160] Act. ii.; 1 Tim. ii.; 1 Cor. xiv.; Ex. xx.; 1 Joh. v.; 1 Pet. iv.; Es. xl.
[161] Act. ii.; 1 Tim. ii.; 1 Cor. xiv.; Ex. xx.; 1 Joh. v.; 1 Pet. iv.; Es. xl.
[162] In the Latin text of the Corpus et Syntagma and of Niemeyer the order of this and the following section is reversed.
[163] Rom. xiv.; 1 Cor. iii., viii., x.
[164] Rom. xiv.; 1 Cor. iii., viii., x.
[165] Esa. v.; Act. iii.; Rom. 12
[166] Esa. v.; Act. iii.; Rom. 12
[167] Rom. xiii.; 1 Cor. ix.; 1 Tim. v.; 1 Cor. xvi.; Matt. xxii.; Act. iv.
[168] Rom. xiii.; 1 Cor. ix.; 1 Tim. v.; 1 Cor. xvi.; Matt. xxii.; Act. iv.
[169] Matt. xix.; Heb. xiii.; 1 Cor. vii.; 1 Tim. iii.; Matt. v.; 1 Tim. iv.; 2 Thess. iii.
[170] Matt. xix.; Heb. xiii.; 1 Cor. vii.; 1 Tim. iii.; Matt. v.; 1 Tim. iv.; 2 Thess. iii.
CATECHISMUS GENEVENSIS, CONSENSUS TIGURINUS, CONSENSUS GENEVENSIS.
These three documents, drawn up by Calvin, would follow next in chronological order, but do not come within the scope of our selection, partly on account of their length (the Latin text alone would fill about two hundred pages--see Niemeyer, pp. 123-310), partly for intrinsic reasons. The Catechism of Geneva (1541) is no more in use, having been superseded by the Heidelberg and Westminster Catechisms, included in this volume. The Consensus of Zurich (1549), and the Consensus of Geneva (1552), especially the latter, are not so much confessions of faith as elaborate theological and polemical essays on two doctrines--the one on the Lord's Supper, the other on Predestination--for the purpose of harmonizing and defending the teaching of the Swiss Churches. On both these doctrines the Second Helvetic, the Gallican, the Belgic, the Scotch, and other Reformed Confessions, which we give in full, are sufficiently explicit and more authoritative.
For a history and summary of these documents, see the first volume, pp. 467 sqq.
CONFESSIO HELVETICA POSTERIOR, A.D. 1566.
The Second Helvetic Confession.
[This Helvetic Confession is called the second or later Helv. Conf., to distinguish it from the Confessio Helvetica Prior (or Basileensis Posterior, 1536). It was written by Henry Bullinger, of Zürich (Zwingli's successor), 1562, and first published 1566 in Latin, also in German and French. It is the most elaborate and most catholic among the Swiss Confessions. (Hagenbach calls it a 'wahres dogmatisches Meisterstück.' It was adopted, or at least highly approved, by nearly all the Reformed Churches on the Continent and in England and Scotland. Hence it must have a place in this selection. But it is rather a theological treatise than a popular creed; and on account of its great length I am obliged to omit a translation, referring the reader to the summary given in the first volume. There is an English translation by Owen Jones (The Church of the Living God; also the Swiss and Belgian Confessions of Faith, London, 1865), and another by Prof. Jeremiah Good, D.D. (of Tiffin, Ohio), Phila. 1873.
For the text I have compared the following Latin editions: 1. The edition of Zürich, 1651, as reprinted in the Corpus et Syntagma Confessionum Fidei (Geneva, 1654, pp. 1-61). 2. The edition in the Oxford Syllage Confessionum, 2d ed. 1827, pp. 9-115, printed in very superior style, but with some omissions. 3. J. P. Kindler's Confessio Helvetica Posterior, with a preface by Winer, Solisbaci, 1825 (pp. 102); from this edition I have adopted the division of chapters into sections, and the references to the Augsburg Confession. 4. The edition of Niemeyer, in his Collectio Conf. Reform., Leipz. 1840, pp. 462-536, who gives the text of the edition of 1568, with unimportant variations of a Zürich MS., and the editions of Oxford and of Kindler. 5. The German text in Böckel's Bekenntniss-Schriften der evang.-reformirten Kirche, Leipz. 1847, pp. 281-347. The editions of Fritzsche and Böhl were not at hand. Some editions add the Imperial Edict against heretics from the Justinian Code, and the Symbolum of Pope Damasus from the works of Jerome. The title and preface are copied from the Zürich edition, 1651, in the Corpus et Syntagma Confessionum, 1654.]
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