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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §12

Prefatio Crimina II remainder: Anthropophagy reductio, Capernaism, and the reverse charge of making God author of sin

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From these words it is conspicuous — completing what was begun above under (2) — 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, because it would induce Anthropophagy and Haematoposia; and that every Anthropophagy and Haematoposia without distinction, without any limitation anywhere made in the Holy Scriptures, is held abominable to God and to man (Leviticus 7:26; 17:14).

So then it would scarcely be lawful for a Reformed man to draw any consequences — even those contained in the most evident manner in explicit propositions — if those consequences should happen to press upon the Lutheran Doctrine; nor indeed without adding the imputation of consequences not acknowledged by the Lutherans, which imputation I have warned again and again in what precedes to be otherwise less lawful. And therefore I have also judged that not even a Partial Capernaism, likewise contained in the Corporal and Oral Manducation of Christ's Body, ought to be attributed to them.

Conversely it will be free for the Lutherans to elicit anything from anything, and to transcribe upon the Reformed with impunity whatever blasphemies they please — and among them all the greatest, that God is the Author of sin (a charge the Reformed hold abominable, detest in the highest degree, and never cease to execrate) — blasphemies never to be vindicated from them even by a goose-quill style, much less by a Tartarean spear (from which kind of revenge all the Reformed justly abhor)?

Latin

Ex his verbis conspicuum est — quod supra (2) inchoatum — Manducationem Corporis Christi, si Corporalis Oralisque habeatur, deprehendi hujusmodi, ut a Christo institui haud potuerit, quod induceret Anthropophagiam et Haematoposiam; omnis vero promiscue Anthropophagia et Haematoposia, citra limitationem ullam, in Scripturis S. nullibi factam, Deo hominique (Leviticus 7:26; 17:14) abominabilis habita sit. Ita vero haud licitum fuerit Reformato, Consequentias ullas nectere, etiam evidentissimo modo in propositionibus explicitis contentas, si istae fortean Lutheranam Doctrinam premere appareant; nec quidem citra Consequentiarum, a Lutheranis haud agnitarum, additam imputationem, quam alioquin minus licitam esse, toties quoties in antecedentibus monui; indeque nec Capernaismum Partialem, in Corporali Oralique Corporis Christi Manducatione itidem contentum, iisdem tribuendum duxi. Lutheranis vice versa liberum erit, quidlibet ex quolibet elicere, et blasphemias quascunque harumque omnium maximam, de Deo peccati Authore — Reformatis abominabilem habitam, summumque in modum detestandam et nunquam non execratam — impune tamen iisdem transcribere, ne anserino quidem stylo, nedum pilo Tartareo (a quo vindictae genere omnes Reformati merito abhorrent) ab his unquam vindicandas?

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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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