A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §130

J.X open: Variata defense was not for Reformed favor — Invariata equally dear; Leipzig Colloquy; Museus/Chemnitz on fuller Variata

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J. X. Anyone can see that what we have argued so far for the Variata or Philippica Augsburg Confession was not argued to favor the Reformed.

To them the Invariata is no less welcome than the Variata — clear enough from the Leipzig Colloquy alone in the last century among Saxon, Brandenburg, and Hessian theologians.

With John Museus, following Martin Chemnitz, they only add that in the later edition most articles are drawn out more fully and stated more richly, and that many useful things appear there.

Latin

J. X. Quae hactenus pro Variata seu Philippica Confessione Augustana disputavimus, non in Reformatorum gratiam disputata fuisse quivis facile intelligat, utpote quibus Invariata Confessio non minus grata, atque Variata est, id quod vel ex solo Colloquio Lipsiaco, superiori seculo Saxonicos inter, Brandenb. & Hassiacos Theologos, habito, satis superque constat, nisi quod cum Joh. Museo ex Martino Chemnitio, de posteriori teneant, plerosque Articulos in ea fusius deductos & uberius declaratos esse, multa etiam utilia in ista editione reperiri.

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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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