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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §148

§.XII strict: Primarily Imperial Estates + framing theologians; secondarily successors defending Invariata and/or Variata as one substance

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Under the stricter class fall, primarily and immediately — or rather first in time — all the Estates of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in whose name the Augsburg Confession was framed and exhibited, and who subscribed it with their own hands, together with the theologians who drafted it or helped in any way.

Secondarily and mediately come all successors of those Estates (and of others who followed their example), with their theologians to this day, who defend the Augsburg Confession — the Invariata alone, the Variata alone, or both as one and the same in the substance of truth — whether under the name Lutheran or Reformed.

They are set apart, under the common name of Protestants or Evangelicals and genuinely Catholic, from the papal party that owns the Pope as infallible head of the universal church with supreme temporal and spiritual power.

It does not matter whether they read Article X of a spiritual and sacramental presence and exhibition only of Christ's body and blood, or even of a corporal presence (which the Augsburg Confession nowhere states).

Latin

Ad posterius verò genus pertinent, primariò quidem ac immediatè, vel potiùs primò quà ordinem & prioritatem temporis, Imperii Romano-Germanici STATUS OMNES, quorum nomine Confessio August. confecta atque exhibita est, quique eandem manibus suis subscripserunt, unà cum Theologis, Confessionem illam vel adornantibus, vel operam suam quamcunque ad ejus adornationem conferentibus; secundario & mediatè dictorum Imperii Statuum, aliorum quoque, horum exemplum secutorum, Successores universi cum suis Theologis, in hanc usque diem, August. Confess. vel Invariatam solam, vel solam Variatam, vel utramque, ceu re ac Substantia Veritatis unam eandemque, defendentibus, Lutheranorum, sive Reformatorum proprio veniant nomine, communi aliàs Protestantium seu Evangelicorum & γνησίως Catholicorum appellatione, Pontificiis, seu Papam infallibile Universae Ecclesiae caput, summam tàm in Temporalibus, quàm in Spiritualibus tenens potestatem, agnoscentibus, contradistinguendi; sive Articulum Augustanae Confessionis X., de Spirituali & Sacramentali tantum praesentia & exhibitione Corporis & Sanguinis Christi, sive (quod tamen nullibi Augustana Confessio expressit) etiam de Corporali interpretentur:

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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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