es how and as long as you
please; but before this I cannot suffer you to depart." The theologians
came together, and on the 4th of October produced fifteen articles on
the chief doctrines, which were signed by Luther, Melanchton, Jonas,
Osiander, Brenz, and Agricola, on the one side, and [OE]colampadius,
Zwingli, Bucer and Hedio on the other. The last words of it ran thus:
"and although we have not been able now to agree, as to whether the
true body and blood of Christ are corporeally present in the bread and
wine, yet one party ought to exercise Christian charity toward the
other, as far as each conscience can possible allow it, and both
parties ought to beseech Almighty God fervently, to lead us by His
Spirit to a right understanding. Amen."

In conclusion, the _landgrave_ exhorted them to part as brethren. "Then
Zwingli said," as Bullinger narrates, "there were no people on earth,
with whom he would rather be united than the Wittenbergers, and he
would cheerfully acknowledge Luther and his friends as brethren.
[OE]colampadius, Bucer and Hedio had also the same feeling; but Luther
was by no means willing to acknowledge them as brethren in return, and
said: It took him by surprise, that they would call him brother, whose
doctrine on the sacrament they esteemed false; they could not
themselves think much of their own." In regard to the same event, he
wrote to Jacob Probst of Bremen: "They promised with many words, they
would yield this much to us, that the person of Christ was really,
though spiritually, present in the Holy Supper, if we would only esteem
them worthy of the name of brother, and in this way feign a
reconciliation. Zwingli begged it with tears in his eyes before the
_landgrave_ and all present, whilst he added: 'There are no men with
whom I would rather be united than with the Wittenbergers.' With the
greatest zeal and as urgently as possible they endeavored to appear in
harmony with us and never could endure my saying: 'You have another
spirit than we.' As often as they heard it they were inflamed. Finally,
we granted so much, that it might stand at the conclusion of the
article, not indeed that we were brethren, but that we would not
withdraw from them our love, which is due even to an enemy. So now, the
shame rests on them, that they would not receive the name of brother
and must separate as heretics; meanwhile we agreed, in our
controversial writings, no more to make war on each other, in the hope
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