Brueck

Wittenberg and through Brueck delivered four (five) articles to the local theologians and jurists for consideration with instructions to submit their answer in writing.

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Self-evidently, Brueck had Luther's articles in mind, although it cannot be proved that he directly and expressly mentioned them or submitted them for discussion and adoption.

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Even Brueck is said to have made some improvements.

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However, we do not know who, besides Brueck, these "others" were.

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Amsdorf, the Elector John Frederick, Brueck, and Luther, who also called him to account whenever sufficient evidence warranted his doing so.

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Brueck reports an eyewitness of the reading of the Augustana as saying: "The greater portion among them [the Papists] is not so ignorant as not to have seen long ago that they are in error."

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Brueck, of 1530, designates the Large Catechism as "the Long Catechism."

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The articles which Brueck presented dealt mainly with the questions: whether, in view of the fact that the

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

Regarding Agricola's duplicity, Luther, in his _Report_ to Brueck, said in substance: According to the statements of Caspar Guettel and

Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894

In his protest, Brueck dwelt especially on the offensive words of the imperial decision which claimed that the Augustana was refuted by the Confutation.

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