The thirteenth article gives no offence, but is accepted,
while they say that the sacraments were instituted not only
to be marks of profession among men, but rather to be signs
and testimonies of God's will toward us; nevertheless, we
must request them that what they here ascribe to the
sacraments in general they confess also specifically
concerning the seven sacraments of the Church and take
measures for the observance of them by their subjects.


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.


To Article XV.


In the fifteenth article their confession that such
ecclesiastical rites are to be observed as may be observed