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First edition. In the dedication to the present work, Hoffmeister (1509–1547), one of Luther’s resolute adversaries, and Vicar General of the Augustinians in Germany, explains that there are people who wish, bono fortasse zelo, to find the truth for themselves and who hope that it may be possible from so many controversies to decide what is true and pious. ‘They are too self-confident and become entrapped in wretched errors; for this reason I think it often happens that deprived of correct instruction they lean, as one says, against a collapsing wall.’ Hoffmeister aims to provide the support they need and observes that by following the Holy Fathers men have evaded the chimaeras which beset them.

After the dedication there follows a short preface by Vincent of Lérins, a Frenchman, in a more robust and militant register, entitled ‘Against profane innovations’. Then Hoffmeister provides a catalogus patrum of some forty patristic authorities from whom he cites opinion, and throughout his text places in the margin the name of the authority on whom he is there relying. Virtually all his paragraphs have one or more references to patristic texts with chapter and page cited, taking points which may have been in dispute and setting out the Catholic position with support from the Fathers or sometimes from the decisions of a Council.

USTC 673368; VD16 H 4269. Library Hub records a single copy, at the BL; OCLC finds seven copies in the US.

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