XIII–XIV. Faithful relation by public Church writing; private orthodox doctors

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.