_The Confutatio Pontificia:  
   
  In Reference To The Matters Presented To His Imperial Majesty   
   By The Elector Of Saxony And Some Princes And States Of The   
     Holy Roman Empire, On The Subject And Concerning Causes  
    Pertaining To The Christian Orthodox Faith, The Following   
          Christian Reply Can Be Given._ August 3, 1530.   
                        Edited by J.M. Reu.   
                           Published in   
         _The Augsburg Confession, A Collection of Sources._  
       (Fort Wayne, IN: Concordia Theological Seminary Press),  
                            pp. 349-383.



                           To Article XIV. 
 
     When, in the fourteenth article, they confess that no one ought to
     administer in the Church the Word of God and the sacraments unless
     he be rightly called, it ought to be understood that he is rightly
     called who is called in accordance with the form of law and the
     ecclesiastical ordinances and decrees hitherto observed everywhere
     in the Christian world, and not according to a Jeroboitic (cf. 1
     Kings 12:20) call, or a tumult or any other irregular intrusion of
     the people. Aaron was not thus called. Therefore in this sense the
     Confession is received; nevertheless, they should be admonished to
     persevere therein, and to admit in their realms no one either as
     pastor or as preacher unless he be rightly called.
 
 
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