A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §150

§.XII continue: Brandenburg Margraves & Electors undoubted AC Socii — George & Joachim II; notwithstanding Johann Sigismund Art. X

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Consequently the Brandenburg Margraves and Electors are likewise undoubted Augsburg Confession associates — from George (Margrave and AC subscriber) and Joachim II (Elector who brought the Confession into his lands) down to our day.

That holds even though blessed Johann Sigismund of glorious memory — great-grandfather of our most august King — with his successors forever after, by God's grace, did not attack Frederick the Palatine's reading of AC Art. X, nor did his theologians.

Latin

Atque sic per consequens, August. Confess. Socii quoque indubii sunt Marchiones & Electores Brandenburgici, à GEORGII, Marchionis ac Confess. August. Subsignatoris, & JOACHIMI SECUNDI, Electoris Brandenburgici, & Confessionis Augustanae in regiones suas Introductoris usque tempore, non obstante; quod DIVUS JOHANNES SIGISMUNDUS gloriosissimae memoriae, AUGUSTISSIMI REGIS NOSTRI Proavus, cum Successoribus suis inque omne aevum, per Dei gratiam, secuturis olim, Friderici Palatini interpretationem August. Confess. quoad Articulum X., unà cum Theologis suis non impugnaverit;

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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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