# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1856_S303
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Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library. 303

of the work, than that God would grant life and strength by grace to the dear Löscher, that he might be able to carry the history of the "Motus" forward to his own time. Whoever wishes to be thoroughly instructed on the origin, the course, and the significance of our controversies with the Reformed, and to arrive at a firm and sure judgment about them, will not achieve his purpose better than by procuring and studying this work. It is so thorough that it cannot be refuted, and at the same time written with such great moderation, without any bitterness, in so wholesome a spirit of love and fairness, that even the reader who at first came filled with prejudices, if he is not an enemy of the truth, will in the end gladly be persuaded.

As the second work treating the controversies between the Lutherans and the Reformed, which should not be missing from any Lutheran-theological pastor's library, we name the following: "Διάσκεψις theologica de fundamentali dissensu doctrinæ Evangelico-Lutheranæ et Calvinianæ seu Reformatæ, autore Nicolao Hunnio. Cum præmissa consideratione ὑποκρίσεως Calvinianæ, Dortrechtana Synodo proditæ. Witebergæ 1626" [A theological examination of the fundamental disagreement between Evangelical-Lutheran and Calvinist or Reformed doctrine, by Nicolaus Hunnius. With a prior consideration of the pretense of the Calvinists, exposed at the Synod of Dordrecht. Wittenberg, 1626]. 8vo. The author of this work is the famous son of the equally famous Aegidius Hunnius. He was born at Marburg on 11 June 1585, accompanied his father, still a Wittenberg student, in 1601 to Regensburg to the well-known Colloquy between Hunnius and Heilbrunner on the one side and the Jesuits Gretser and Tanner on the other, became in 1604 adjunct of the philosophical faculty at Marburg, in 1612 superintendent at Eulenburg, in 1617 professor of theology at Wittenberg, and finally in 1623 superintendent at Lübeck, where he administered this office until 1643, in which year he died, after having already lost his memory through many illnesses. It may be that the Διάσκεψις, on account of the sharpness of its argumentation, does not sit entirely well with some nowadays; but whoever would conclude from this that our Nicolaus Hunnius was a contentious man would be greatly mistaken. How little pleasure he took in controversies, and what heartfelt longing he bore for peace in the church, is evident from the proposal he made to the church in his own time, to establish a "Collegium pacificatorium" of its own, through which the doctrinal controversies among the individual theologians might be removed or at least quieted. Namely, a college of twelve theologians from the various church governments of Germany was to be appointed and maintained, who, free from all other official work, should have the special task and the special calling to investigate all pending doctrinal controversies and to take up and apply all suitable means for settling them. Hunnius unfortunately did not achieve his purpose. Later Duke Ernst the Pious of Saxe-Gotha took up this plan of our Hunnius, set aside a capital of 100,000 thalers for this purpose, offered for it the monastery of Reinhardsbrunn, and for this reason had it (after having gathered-