A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §137

§.XI open: Close Variata defense with Chemnitz judgment — Lyser 1594, Bajer 1676, Hannekenius Declarat. cite the same Chemnitz words

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§. XI. We close this defense of the Variata — that it is not to be attacked or thrown out — with the Chemnitz judgment already cited a little above.

It is the piece On the Controversies once stirred about certain Augsburg Confession articles, edited by Polycarp Leyser at Wittenberg in 1594 and again by Bajer at Jena in 1676, praised by both.

Most recently the Wittenberg theologian Hannekenius smoothed the same saying in his Theological Declaration on the true Estimation of the Augsburg Confession (Preliminary Question 4, near the end, p. 6).

Chemnitz's words are these:

Latin

§. XI. Disputationem nostram pro Confessione Variata non impugnanda aut rejicienda institutam, claudimus paulò ante allegato judicio D. MARTINI CHEMNITII de Controversiis quae superiori tempore, circa quosdam August. Confess. Articulos, motae & agitatae sunt, & tam à D. Polycarpo Lysero Anno 1594. Wittenbergae, quam à D. Bajero Anno 1676. Jenae, edito, ab utroque etiam laudato, quin novissimè à Wittenbergensi Theologo, D. Hannekenio, exasciato dicto, Declarat. Theol. de vera August. Conf. Estimatione Quaest. Prelim. 4. sub finem. pag. 6. cujus Judicii Chemniziani verba ita habent:

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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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