Public confessions of the Church and private writings of its teachers
XIII. Faithful relation takes place through a public writing of the Church. Here pertain the three catholic symbols — the Apostolic, Nicene, Athanasian. Then here can be referred the Augsburg Confession, the Gallican, Anglican, Helvetic confessions, the Harmony of Evangelical Confessions, the Heidelberg Catechism, with similar public writings.
XIV. Private is that which some orthodox doctor has made of public right, not in the Church's public name, but in his own. Of this rank are most of the writings of Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Bullinger, Musculus, Chemnitz, Hemmingius, Martyr, Beza, Ursinus, Zanchi, Benedictus Aretius, Franciscus Junius, David Pareus, Whitaker, Perkins, Polanus, Piscator, and the like — indeed also of the ancient fathers, Latin as well as Greek.
Latin
XIII. Fidelis relatio fit per publicum Ecclesiae scriptum. Huc pertinent tria symbola catholica, Apostolicum, Nicenum, Athanasianum. Deinde huc referri possunt Augustana confessio, confessio Gallica, Anglicana, Helvetica, Harmonia confessionum Euangelicarum, Catechesis Heidelbergensis cum similibus publicis scriptis. XIV. Privatum est, quod orthodoxus aliquis doctor publici juris fecit, non publico Ecclesiae, sed suo nomine. Hujus census sunt, Scripta pleraque Lutheri, Melanchthonis, Calvini, Bullingeri, Musculi, Chemnitii, Hemmingii, Martyris, Bezae, Ursini, Zanchii, B. Aretii, F. Junii, D. Parei, Whitakeri, Perkinsi, Polani, Piscatoris, & similium: imo & priscorum patrum tam Latinorum, quam Graecorum.