# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1856_S241
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library. 241

nevertheless accomplishes something through His blessing, so that not only our fellow believers approve it, but even our opponents themselves are moved by the manifest truth to bear witness against themselves.'" (loc. cit., vol. 1719, pp. 591–593.) From this alone it should be sufficiently clear what manner of man Chemnitz was — a man of whom one does not know whether to admire more his learning, or his godliness and humility, or his blessed influence, scarcely comparable to any but Luther's, upon the settling and shaping of our Church and its doctrinal form. Chemnitz is equally great in building up as in fighting; for the former, his Harmonia Evangelica bears witness above all his other works, for the latter his Examen Concilii Tridentini — writings which render any further proof superfluous for those who know these immortal works. Chemnitz lived and labored in one of the most troubled and perilous times of our Church, in a time of a more decisive Thirty Years' War than even the one that, half a century later, laid waste the lands of Germany; and, next to God, we owe it above all others to the faithfulness and high gifts of this Chemnitz, the chief author of the Formula of Concord (from whom, as Löscher demonstrates in his Historia motuum, even a Jacob Andreä gladly learned), that that war ended in a still more blessed work of peace (the Formula Concordiae) than even the Peace of Osnabrück itself was. — But it is time that we return to the work which we promised to present to our honored readers. The "Examen Concilii Tridentini" is, as the title already indicates, an examination of the decrees of the Council held at Trent in the years 1545–1563, decrees which, as is well known, have been raised in the Roman Church to the standing of symbolical, that is confessional, determinations. The occasion for composing this work was as follows. A Lutheran teacher at Düsseldorf, Joh. Monheim, had published a catechism, against which the Cologne Jesuits in 1560 published a book under the title: "Censura de praecipuis doctrinae coelestis capitibus." Against this Chemnitz wrote in 1562 the following work: "Theologiae Jesuitarum praecipua capita, ex quadam ipsorum censura adnotata per M. Chemnitium, seu theologiae Jesuitarum brevis ac nervosa descriptio" (which writing is found appended to Chemnitz's Loci in the Frankfurt edition of 1690, and was also published in German in octavo in the year 1719 at Dresden by Gröll, with the addition of a history of the Jesuit order). Against this writing, Diego di Payva d'Andrada (Andradius), professor of theology at the University of Coimbra, who as the delegated theologian of King Sebastian of Portugal had taken an active part at the Council of Trent, published, after receiving a request to do so from the other Tridentine fathers, his: "Orthodoxarum explicationum de controversis religionis capitibus libri X," both elsewhere and also at Cologne in the year 1564. Chemnitz soon noticed that it was not so much