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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §112

§.V: Or ἀπόγραφον hand-copies at the Diet — or τυπόγραφον print, private at Breslau and public at Wittenberg

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Or it is an ἀπόγραφον — an ἔκτυπον: a fair pen copy, word for word from the original.

I would not easily deny that such copies stood ready at the Augsburg Diet.

It is hardly likely that neither the theologians — Melanchthon chief among the framers — nor the imperial Estates in whose name the Confession was dressed, kept an exact copy of what was shown to Charles, and even several copies procured estate by estate, held back against every sort of chance.

Had they done otherwise, they would one and all stand convicted — if not of lazy neglect, then of a stupid want of foresight.

Or last, a τυπόγραφον — an ἔκτυπον from the press: type set from a pen apograph.

That could be by private venture: the same year a vernacular quarto came out at Breslau from Adam Dyon types. Chytraeus says it was shaped to the original Confession kept in the Mainz archive (History, p. 47), and he himself often follows it (see the author of the Ausführliche Behauptung, p. 6 at the end).

Or it could be by public authority: the next year Wittenberg printed several, German and Latin, quarto and octavo.

Among them the Latin quarto took first place, and in its preface even branded the Breslau print a spurious one — as Calov notes (Critica Sacra, p. 82).

Latin

VEL Ἀπόγραφον seu ἔκτυπον, i. e. justum, de verbo ad verbum juxta Originale, calamo intellige conceptum Exemplar, quale tempore comitiorum Augustanorum non facilè negaverim exstitisse, cùm probabile haut fiat, nec Theologos, inter hos Concinnatorem augustanae Confessionis praecipuum, Melanchthonem, nec Status Imperii, quorum nomine Confessio adornata fuit, Exemplaris, Caesari exhibendi exhibitique, exactam omnino Copiam, imò plures à singulis Statibus procuratas, habuisse, sibiique in varios perquam casus retinuisse servasseque, alioquin, & si secus fecissent, ad unum omnes, si minus supinae negligentiae, certè stupidae cujusdam improvisionis, coarguendi; VEL denique, τυπόγραφον seu Ἔκτυπον, praelô, i. e. juxta Exemplar apographum, calamo factum, typis exscripta, idque vel privato ausu, qualis eodem anno Vratislaviae, vernacula lingva in 4to, typis Adami Dyonis, prodiit, de qua Chytraeus Hist. August. pag. 47. pronunciat, ad Originalem Confessionem in Moguntino servatam Archivo, fuisse formatam, quamque idem Chytraeus ipsemet haud rarò sequitur, vid. auctor. der ausführlichen Behauptung pag. 6. in fine; Vel publica auctoritate, quales anno sequenti Wittenbergae plures, tam Germanicae, quàm Latinae, & in 4to, & in 8vo excusae sunt, primas tamen inter omnes obtinente Latinâ in quarto, etiam Vratislaviensem in praefatione sua, ceu spuriam arguente, uti observat Calovii Critic. Sacr. pag. m. 82.

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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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