A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §142

§.XI close Chemnitz: The 1540 edition is in everyone's hands; 1531 scarcely known; it holds only needed declarations — reject it and you disturb the churches. Thus far Chemnitz

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"But the 1540 edition is in everyone's hands, while the first edition of 1531 is unknown to most and scarcely ever seen.

It contains nothing false — only some needed declarations.

I do not see how it can be thrown out altogether, or simply condemned, without disturbing the churches."

Thus far Chemnitz.

Latin

Cùm verò Editio Anni 40. omnium manibus versetur, & plerisque ignota & vix unquam visa fuerit prima Editio Anni 31. nec aliquid falsi contineat, sed tantùm necessarias quasdam Declarationes, nescio, quomodo possit omninò vel simpliciter rejici & damnari sine perturbatione Ecclesiarum. Hucusque Chemnitius.

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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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