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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §11

Prefatio Crimina II J.VII opening: The anthropophagy charge answered from the Disputation on the Supper

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J. VII.

There follows the SECOND CRIMINATION impacted on me by the Adversaries, by which I am said to have agitated the Eucharistic Doctrine of the Lutherans as Anthropophagy and Haematoposia — abominable to God and to men — in my Disputation on the Lord's Supper, and to have traduced it impiously and profanely, as Architect of a sly Union; which very thing is judged fit to be vindicated by no goose-quill style, but by a Tartarean spear. Even this imputation itself — to be held utterly foreheaded, and scarcely to be expected in that manner from a barbaric Tartarus — I will nevertheless never vindicate by any injurious word against the Author; I must dissolve it by the allegation of my own most innocent words, which run thus:

A third kind of arguments to be opposed, namely, to the CORPORAL AND ORAL Manducation of Christ's Body, which, the Lutherans themselves confessing, is not Scriptural flows from the nature of the Manducation itself to be instituted in the Holy Supper: which, if it is stated as a CORPORAL AND ORAL Manducation of Christ's Body, is found to be of such a kind that it could not have been instituted by Christ, because it induces Anthropophagy and Haematoposia, abominable to God and to men (Leviticus 7:26; 17:14).

From these words it is conspicuous: (1) that I carefully guarded not only lest anyone attribute Anthropophagy and Haematoposia to the Lutherans, but also lest I call the Lutherans' Eucharistic Doctrine — even concerning the Corporal and Oral Manducation of Christ's Body and Drinking of His Blood — a saving Anthropophagy and Haematoposia, and that for this sole cause, that they deny it to be such; while nevertheless holding that this Doctrine of the Lutherans concerning the Corporal and Oral Manducation of Christ's Body and the corporal and oral Drinking of His Blood contains Anthropophagy and Haematoposia, provided that, on the one side, the Body and Blood of Christ are the body and blood of a true man, and on the other side, Corporal and Oral Manducation and Drinking complete a true and proper Manducation and Drinking. (2) that I said only this: that the Manducation of Christ's Body if it be held Corporal and Oral is found to be of such a kind that it could not have been instituted by Christ.

Latin

J. VII. Succedit SECUNDA Adversariorum mihi impacta CRIMINATIO, qua dicor Doctrinam Eucharisticam Lutheranorum, Anthropophagiam et Haematoposiam, Deo hominique abominabilem, in Disputatione mea de Coena Domini, exagitasse, impieque profaneque traduxisse, ceu subdolae Unionis Architectus, quod vero ipsum nullo stylo anserino, sed pilo Tartareo vindicandum judicetur. Etiam hanc ipsam, effrontem oppido habendam, vixque a Tartaro Barbarico expectandam isto modo imputationem, nihilominus nullo in Auctorem injurioso verbo unquam a me vindicandam, ipsa verborum meorum innocentissimorum allegatione diluam necesse est, quae ita habent: Tertium argumentorum genus (Manducationi sc. Corporis Christi CORPORALI ORALIQUE, quae, fassis Lutheranis ipsis, Scripturalis non est) opponendum ex ipsius Manducationis, in S. Coena instituenda, natura fluit, quae si CORPORALIS ORALISQUE Corporis Christi statuatur, deprehenditur hujusmodi, ut a Christo institui haud potuerit, quod Anthropophagiam inducit et Haematoposiam, Deo hominique abominabilem (Leviticus 7:26; 17:14). Ex his verbis conspicuum est: (1.) Me solicite cavisse, non tantum ne Lutheranis Anthropophagiam et Haematoposiam ullus tribuerem, sed et, ne Lutheranorum Doctrinam Eucharisticam, de Corporali licet et Orali Corporis Christi Manducatione et Sanguinis Bibitione, Anthropophagiam et Haematoposiam salutarem, idque eam solam ob causam, quod illi negant talem esse — non obstante, hac interim Doctrina Lutheranorum de Corporali Oralique Corporis Christi Manducatione et Sanguinis corporali oralique Bibitione, Anthropophagiam et Haematoposiam contineri, dummodo, ex una parte, Corpus et Sanguis Christi, corpus et sanguis veri hominis sint; ex altera vero parte, Manducatio et Bibitio Corporales Oralesque, veram propriamque Manducationem et Bibitionem absolvant. (2) Dixisse me duntaxat, Manducationem Corporis Christi (si Corporalis Oralisque habeatur) deprehendi hujusmodi, ut a Christo institui haud potuerit.

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Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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