# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1856_S244
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244 Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

or rather an exceedingly rich library, and contains the refutation of the Tridentine Council, together with a defense and exposition of evangelical doctrine; useful for all who love the truth, and for those who wish to engage in combat with the Papists, who so often make a great show of those pythagorean decrees of the Tridentine Council. There have been others who examined this same Council and were not without skill, but this our Chemnitz, through his extensive work, which has often been published in the midst of Germany, while the others treat it briefly, has attained by far the greater renown. It is a matter of wonder how the wasps adorned with mitre and purple have struggled with Chemnitz's Examen." (Effig. praestant. aliq. theolog., p. 175.) Mart. Schookius, who died as professor at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1669, writes: "No one has since Chemnitz fought successfully against the Papists out of church antiquity who has not ploughed with his heifer, without, of course, mentioning whence such victorious weapons were taken." (Exercitat. theol.) J. Heinr. Heidegger, the well-known author of the Formula Consensus, who died at Zurich in 1698, writes in his Anatome Concilii Trid.: "I confess indeed freely that that so exceedingly learned man, worthy of undying praise, Martin Chemnitz, dealt the Tridentine Council so valiant a death-blow with a single stroke and pierced its heart, that no further stroke was needed, and I acknowledge and confess at the same time with gratitude that he brought no small help to my own helplessness." (Praef. p. b.) It is, finally, also well known that not a few scholars were commissioned by their popish superiors to refute Chemnitz's Examen, who, having now had to study it more closely, as soon as they went deeper into it, threw down their pens and, overwhelmed by the truth, left the Papacy and became Lutherans. Among these belongs, among others, the famous Jesuit Ignatius Aloysius Zierendorf, Doctor of Theology and Professor of Controversial Theology, who had received this commission and who, as a result of his study of Chemnitz's work, became a Lutheran in the year 1711, and thereupon published the outstanding writing against the Papacy: Papismus ágraphos kai engraphos [Popery unwritten and written]. (See Löscher's Unschuldige Nachrichten, 1712, p. 1100.) Further, the Jesuit Franz Leopold von Reising, born 1700 at Graz in Styria, writes the following concerning his conversion to Lutheranism: "At last I came, through the guidance of divine grace, upon the Examen of the Tridentine Council by the very famous, now blessed, Dr. M. Chemnitz. Through reading this book I was seized by such a longing for the truth that I could not content myself with the time allotted me in the public library" (where Reising had found the book) "but secretly took the said book from the library, against all permission, to my own chamber, and there used every free moment to search into it. I compared the sayings of the fathers with the words of Holy Scripture, and re-