# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1856_S243
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library. 243

has made himself so famous through his exceedingly accurate examination of the Tridentine Council, that the high praise which he earned through his rare learning and godliness cannot be dimmed by the opponents over whom he carried off a true triumph." (Syntagm. hist. eccl. III, p. 743.) J. Conr. Danhauer writes: "In the anti-Tridentine Examen one finds an outstanding specimen of the analytic method, in which he, after having taken and established the present status controversiae from the whole history of the disputes, selects those proofs which are fit for combat and achieve conviction — proofs which none of his adversaries has hitherto been able to refute thoroughly and victoriously." (Adv. Cornaeum, p. 257.) Anton Reiher, who died as pastor at Hamburg in 1686, writes: "Assuredly, had Luther seen with his own eyes the precise Examen of the Tridentine Council, I do not doubt in the least that he would have preferred it to all the ancient writings." (Templ. honoris, p. 399.) Sam. Bened. Carpzov, who died as chief court preacher at Dresden in 1707, writes: "Matthias Hoe called Martin Chemnitz, this outstanding theologian, without hesitation the third angel (Rev. 14:9) — a judgment to which I assent all the less reluctantly, the greater the courage, the greater the store of learning, the greater the depth of spirit, and the greater the sharpness of judgment with which Chemnitz attacked their common adversary. Following Luther and Flacius, he published his Theology of the Jesuits at just the time when Roman Babylon undertook to repair her breaches anew by assembling, for that purpose, unfortunate master-builders at the Council of Trent. And when thereupon the Portuguese Andradius attacked him, he composed that incomparable Examen of the Tridentine Council, admired by the whole learned world, whereby he warns against the mark of the beast and sets against the exceedingly unjust anathemas with which that assembly of the malicious thunders against the confessors of divine truth, that anathema of Revelation, chapter 14:9–11: '"If any man worship the beast and his image,"' etc. Raging dogs have barked at this writing, which breathes the divine Spirit, but none of its opponents has been able to refute it with any foundation, since it is built upon the immovable ground of the divine Word and adorned with testimonies of the Church of antiquity, so that the adversaries, driven from the fortress of Scripture, cannot find, for their so wretched cause, any patronage even in the authority of the fathers." (Disputt. isagogicae Chemnitium etc., Praef. p. II.) Even the Reformed have not been able to exhaust themselves in praise of Chemnitz's Examen. Jacob Verheiden, who died at The Hague around 1600, writes: "He (Chemnitz) it is who examined the decrees of the new Tridentine fathers most diligently according to God's Word, as the norm and rule, and according to the judgment and doctrines of the older and purer Church fathers. This work is, among the rest, the most outstanding,