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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §152

§.XII continue: Walther (Lutheran Königsberg) seeks Viadrina doctorate knowing AC oath; promoted 1702 by Strimesius as Dean

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Hence also Christian Walther — still a well-known Lutheran churchman, Assessor of the Holy Sambian Consistory at Königsberg in Prussia, and now fourth Ordinary Professor of Theology — once informed of our faculty oath (that after Holy Scripture we solemnly bind ourselves forever to the four ecumenical councils alone and to the Augsburg Confession as symbolic writings) did not hesitate two years ago to seek a doctorate of theology from our faculty.

After he took and signed the oath, by command of our most pious King the faculty decorated him through me (then Dean), as the 1702 printed Signification in the Viadrina theological faculty's name reports more fully.

It is not out of place here to add both our faculty oath and the royal mandate — most gracious, and warmly favoring the efforts of the Lutheran candidate and of the Reformed promoters alike. The oath runs in these words, &c.

Latin

Ut hinc etiam Lutheranae Ecclesiae haud incelebris hodieque Antecessor Consistoriiique S. Sambiensis Regiomonti Borussorum Assessor, nunc etiam quartus in ordine, Theologiae Professor Ordinar. Christianus Waltherus, de Facultatis nostrae Juramento certior factus, quô post Sacram. Scripturam, solis quatuor Conciliis Oecumenicis & Augustanae Confessioni ceu Symbolicis Scriptis perpetuò nos adhaesuros, solenniter recipimus, abhinc annis duobus, Theologiae Doctoris Gradum à Facultate nostra Theologica petere nullus dubitaverit, etiam eôdem, post praestitum subsignatumque Juramentum, jussu PIENTISSIMI REGIS NOSTRI, à dicta Facultate, per me, eo tempore Decanum, mactatus sit, prout fusius id refert Significatio, nomine Facultatis Theologicae Viadrinae, Anno 1702. typis evulgata. Tam Juramentum Facultatis nostrae, quam Mandatum Regium, utpote clementissimum, & Promovendi pariter Lutherani, atque Promoventium Reformatorum conatibus faventissime applaudens, non abs re fuerit, hôc locô subjunxisse. Juramentum hisce conceptum verbis est &c.

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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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