_The Smalcald Articles.
                      Articles of Christian Doctrine
               which were to have been presented on our part
           to the Council, if any had been assembled at Mantua
               or elsewhere, indicating what we could accept
                      or yield, and what we could not._
                         by Dr. Martin Luther, 1537
                   Translated by F. Bente and  W. H. T. Dau
                                Published in:
                  _Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books
                        of the Ev. Lutheran Church_.
        (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 453-529.
 
        THE THIRD PART OF THE ARTICLES.
         
        VI. Of the Sacrament of the Altar. 
         
        Of the Sacrament of the Altar we hold that bread and wine in
        the Supper are the true body and blood of Christ, and are
        given and received not only by the godly, but also by wicked
        Christians. 
         
        And that not only one form is to be given. [For] we do not
        need that high art [specious wisdom] which is to teach us that
        under the one form there is as much as under both, as the
        sophists and the Council of Constance teach. For even if it
        were true that there is as much under one as under both, yet
        the one form only is not the entire ordinance and institution
        [made] ordained and commanded by Christ. And we especially
        condemn and in God's name execrate those who not only omit
        both forms but also quite autocratically [tyrannically]
        prohibit, condemn, and blaspheme them as heresy, and so exalt
        themselves against and above Christ, our Lord and God
        [opposing and placing themselves ahead of Christ], etc. 
         
        As regards transubstantiation, we care nothing about the
        sophistical subtlety by which they teach that bread and wine
        leave or lose their own natural substance, and that there
        remain only the appearance and color of bread, and not true
        bread. For it is in perfect agreement with Holy Scriptures
        that there is, and remains, bread, as Paul himself calls it, 
        1 Cor. 10, 16: The bread which we break. And 1 Cor. 11, 28:
        Let him so eat of that bread. 
         
        
 
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