A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §128

§.IX German: Other repeated Confessions kept in Scripture/AC sense; mild Sacrament-Mass wording is not papal agreement

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In the same way our mind is this: we do not reject or give up our other writings and repeated Confessions — those the Estates of our religion handed in at Imperial Diets and colloquies under His Majesty, partly published, to explain the standing, unrefuted truth and to drive out long-settled false teaching and abuse.

We mean to keep them in every way in the sense of holy Scripture and of the now-renewed Augsburg Confession and Apology.

And when our opponents twist some early, mild articles or words in that Confession and Apology — set gently, partly in German speech-habit, especially where the holy Sacrament, the Mass, and the Roman Church are named — as if we agreed with their idolatrous papal teachings and ceremonies (in which Christian changes later came anyway), and above all with the horror of transubstantiation, the papal Mass, and what hangs on it: we declare again that this is not our meaning at all.

Latin

Wie denn auch gleicher gestalt unsere Meinung dahin gericht / daß wir andere der unsere Schrifften und repetirte Confessionen/ so der Kays: Maj. aufgehaltenen Reichs-Tagen und Colloquien/durch die Ständ/unserer Religion/zu weiterer Erklärung der beständigen und unwiederlegten Warheit / und Abwendung deren eine lange Zeit eingerissenen falschen Lehren und Mißbrauchen übergeben / und zum Theil publiciret/ hiemit nicht verwerffen / noch begeben / sondern dieselbe/im Verstand der heiligen Schrifft und ieko erneurter Augspurgischen Confession und Apologi gemäß/in alle Weg wollen vorbehalten haben. Da auch unser Gegentheil etliche Articul oder Wörter in dieser Augspurgischen Confession und Apologi / welche zum Anfang dieser hochnothwendigen / unvermeidentlichen Veränderung / zum Theil/ auch nach Art und Gebrauch der Teutschen Sprachen zu reden / zum glimpfligsten gestellt / und sonderlich da vom H. Sacrament und Messe / auch von der Römischen Kirchen gemelt wird / zu ihrem Vortheil und dahin deuten oder ziehen wolten / als wenn wir auch mit ihren abgöttischen Lehren und Ceremonien/in denen sich gleichwol nachgehends allerhand Christliche Aenderungen zugetragen / der Päpstischen Kirchen /und sonderlich dem Greuel der transubstantiation , der Päpstischen Meß / und was dem anhängig / einig/ so erklären wir uns hiemit abermal / daß es die Meinung gar nicht hat / &c.

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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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