1. I N. publicly confess with mouth and mind the holy Christian faith, in all articles, as much as the holy Christian church has kept and commanded to keep until now. And after I was seduced by the Lutheran preachers, that I, against the common custom of the holy Christian church, took the holy reverend sacrament of the Corpus Christi of Jesus Christ, under both forms, bread and wine, so that I turned away from the common Christian faith and obedience, which I am heartily and faithfully sorry for.
2. I swear by the true living God, my Creator, and all His dear saints, never again to be subject to the Lutheran heresy, in these and all other articles; but
To condemn and despise them, to hold them as heretical and erroneous. And now and always want to be the one who gives due and owing obedience to the church.
3) And if in the future I would fall into reported Lutheran heresy, since God would protect me from it, then I will now as then, and as now, out of right science, have granted myself to suffer the severity and punishment of the right, as that imposed on a fallen man, and to be punished with it without fail 2). As God help me, and his holy gospel.
After the oath has been taken, the bishop's absolution follows, which could not have been obtained.
2) i.e. without mitigation.
*This scripture is found in the four oldest editions at the places indicated in the previous number; furthermore in all editions of the Tischreden, Cap. 27, § 152. 27, § 152. We give here the text according to the Jena edition; in our edition of the Tischreden we have omitted this piece and refer to this number. The form of this oath had been let out by Cochläus through printing, as we see from Luther's writing "Die kleine Antwort auf Herzog Georgs nähestes Buch". Cf. No. 30 of this appendix, § 5.