Nicolaus Selnecker - Formula of Concord

[Steven Avery]

Nicolasus Selnecker (Nikolaus) - (Selneccer) (1530–1592)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Selnecker
German musician, theologian Protestant reformer - hymn writer. Formula of Concord

1577 Works: Formula of Concord, Camino de Perfeccion, Paperback – Sept. 15 2010
https://www.amazon.ca/1577-Works-Formula-Concord-Perfeccion/dp/1156033799

Jakob Andrea (1528-1590), Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586), Nikolaus Selnecker (1528-1592), David Chytraeus (1531-1600), Andreas Musculus (1514-1581), Christoph Korner (1518-1594), Caspar Heyderich (1517-1586), Paul Crell (1532-1579) , Maximilian Morlin (1516-1584), Wolfgang Harder (1522-1602), Daniel Graser, Nicholas Jagenteufel (1520-1583), Johannes Cornicaelius, John Schutz (1531-1584), Martin Mirus (1532-1593), Georg Listenius (d. 1596), and Peter Glaser (1528-1583);

The Epitome of the Formula of Concord, Published
June 24, 2017 Bryan Wolfmueller
https://wolfmueller.co/epitome-formula-concord-published/

Formula of Concord - Solid Declaration
Written in German
Primarily by Jakob Andreae, Nikolaus Selnecker, and Martin Chemnitz (1577)

Formula of Concord - Epitome
https://www.1580boc.org/fc-ep

Link to Bente/Dau Translation from German (1921)
https://www.1580boc.org/fc-sd

History of the Christian Church (1985)
Williston Walker, Richard Alfred Norris (Jr.), David W. Lotz, Robert T. Handy
https://books.google.com/books?id=bFw8PtQhpVoC&pg=PA528

sidcrably more “Scholastic” in its method and mode of argument than Luther’s

Opera Latina: Continens Formam Explicationis Examinis Ordinandorum olim (1584)
https://books.google.com/books?id=2zM8AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA205
Tertullian and more

 

[Steven Avery]

RGA - p. 163

 

[Steven Avery]

Selnecker suggests that the words were originally excised by Arians; such interference with Scripture was likewise reported by Socrates Ecclesiasticus, Justin Martyr and Tertullian.30

Dispuncta vero ilia vel per Arianos, vel per pneumatomachos fuisse, verisimile est, quemadmodum accidit etiam sententise 1. Iohan. 4. Omnis spiritus, qui soluit Christum, non est ex Deo. Hanc enim per Nestorianos remotam fuisse, Socrates tripart. hist. lib. 7. testatur. Licet autem Deus permittat malis temeritatem istam, tamen dolos eorum aperit, & veritatem conseruat, sicut factum legimus etiam Psalmo 96. ex quo Iudaeos expunxisse haec verba (Dicite in gentibus, Dominus regnauit a ligno, and ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου.) Iustinus Martyr in Tryphone testatur. Et citat eadem Tertullianus contra Marcionem, & Bernhardus. Ac in hymno canimus: Impleta sunt, quas concinit Dauid fidelis carmine, dicens, In nationibus regnauit a ligno Deus.”

But it is probable that these were interrupted either by the Arians or by the pneumatomachus, as also happens in the sentence of 1 John. 4. Every spirit that looses Christ is not of God. For this was removed by the Nestorians, says Socrates. hist. book 7. is witnessed. And although God permits this recklessness to the wicked, yet he opens their devices and preserves the truth, as we also read in Psalm 96, from which these words pierced the Jews. testified And Tertullian quotes the same against Marcion, and Bernhardus. And in the hymn we sing: They are filled, which David the faithful song sings, saying, God reigned in the nations from a tree.