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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §119

§.VIII: Reply — honor the Philippica; later intra-Lutheran fights were not substance-changes; Art. X twin shift neither substantial nor more Calvinist

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To those more modest Dorscheans and Museans we answer:

First, we take what they have said honorably enough of Philip's Confession — and what presses hardest of all: it is not to be odiously harassed.

Second, the insertions later fought over among Augsburg-Confession theologians for example whether the Gospel is a sermon of repentance did not change the substance of the truth set out in the Augsburg articles. Had they done so, those same theologians would not have been fighting the points among themselves.

Third, we contend that Article X's twin mutation — the chief sweat in the attackers' eyes, as if Melanchthon had altered it for the Calvinists, though the article was framed solely to explode pontifical transubstantiation — neither introduces a substantial change, nor favors the so-called Calvinian sense in any part more than the unvaried Article X itself already does.

Latin

Quibus Dorschaeanis modestioribus & Museanis respondemus (1.) Accipiendo quae de Confessione Philippi honorificè satis edisserunt, quaeque omnino urgent, non odiose eam exagitandam esse. (2.) advertendo, Confessioni Philippicae inserta ea, quae postea in controversiam vocarunt Aug. Conf. Theologi inter se (v. g. Num Evangelium sit Concio poenitentiae &c.) non talia fuisse, quae in Substantiam Veritatis, Articulis Augustanae Confessionis expositae, mutationem aliquam intulerunt, alioquin non talia fuissent, quae Augustanae Confess. Theologi, se inter, in controversiam vocassent. (3.) Contestando, articuli Xmi Mutationem duplicem, quae oppugnantibus eam maxima in oculis sudes est, (quasi in gratiam Calvinianorum facta, quae explodendae Pontificiae Transubstantiationi instituta unicè fuerat) nec Mutationem Substantialem inferre, nec Calvinianae, quam ajunt, Sententiae ulla ex parte magis favere, quam ipse Articulus X. invariatus ei favet.

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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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