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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §168

§.XIV close (6): Alone orthodox by these universals — damn soft AC confessors; yet invited to fraternal union

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(6.) Finally, those who by THESE UNIVERSALS imagine that they alone are orthodox, and that all their commentaries belong to the foundation of the faith — whether before it, with it, or after it — and who shut out and damn everyone who will not rise to the Formula of Concord (better called Discord), even when those others sincerely confess both the Invariata and the Variata Augsburg Confession in everything else.

They cut themselves off by a schism more carnal and more unhappy from syncretists and from the Reformed almost alike — worse than the cut Papists make from Protestants.

Yet from the very people they leave they are invited, and ought to be invited, as steadily as without tiring — however unwilling — not only to mutual tolerance but to a brotherly embrace and church union, through and for the sake of God and his Christ (once the fundamental consent of all Augsburg Confession associates is shown).

On that, more in the Annotations that follow next.

Latin

(6.) Qui denique per HAEC UNIVERSA & se solos Orthodoxos esse, & sua Commenta omnia ad Fundamentum Fidei, sive Antecedenter, sive Concomitanter, sive Consequenter, pertinere sibi imaginati, quotquot Formulae Concordiae, rectius Discordiae appellandae, non assurgunt, utut caetera Aug. Confess. Invariatam perinde atque Variatam sincerissimo animo profitantur, à se arcent ac damnant, Schismate, ut carnaliori multò, ita & infeliciori, à Syncretistis ferè juxtà ac Reformatis, quàm Pontificii à Protestantibus, semet separantes; Ab his ipsis tamen, à quibus semet sejungunt, studiosissimè pariter atque indefessè, non tantum ad mutuam Tolerantiam, sed & Complexum Fraternum & Unionem Ecclesiasticam, utcunque inviti, per & propter Deum Christumq; ejus, (demonstratô Sociorum August. Confess. omnium Consensu Fundamentali) invitati invitandique; Quo de in sequentibus proximè Annotationibus plura.

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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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