A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §133

J.X: Partly for Invariata-only party — do not cling to early wording into papal species-presence sense; Naumburg 1561 preface warned

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Partly it was for the Invariata in particular — and for those who hug that form alone while crushing and wiping out the Variata.

If they cling too superstitiously to the earlier wording, they can be pushed into the papal phrase about Christ's Body and Blood present in the Supper under the species of bread and wine, in the sense the Western Church alone then held when the Confession was issued.

The Imperial Estates at Naumburg in 1561 already flagged that danger in the preface they set before the Invariata and addressed to Emperor Ferdinand.

Latin

Partim in gratiam Invariatae Confessionis in specie, hancque solam & cum oppressione ac exterminio Variatae, amplectentium, ne, dum nimis superstitiose verbis prioris inhaerere satagunt, ad phrasin Pontificiam de praesentia Corporis & Sanguinis Christi in Coena sub Speciebus panis & vini, hujusque phraseos sensum, eo tempore, quo Confessio edebatur, Occidentali Ecclesiae unice receptum, adigantur, id quod metuendum fuisse jam olim innuere Status Imperii, Naunburgi Anno 61. congregati, in praefatione sua, Augustanae Confessioni Invariatae praemissa & Ferdinando Imperatori inscripta;

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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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