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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §175

Decem Theses IX-X close: Tolerate ubiquitism still; Luther and Melanchthon dissented on Coena yet stayed Socii — so Reformed; Addendum Bajerus

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IX. Ubiquitism and whatever hangs on it may be a huge error; still, no solemn act of a general or national synod has yet condemned it, and its defenders talk about it in such different ways that one can hardly tell what they actually hold.

So it should still be tolerated, and those who approve it should nonetheless be counted among the associates of the Augsburg Confession.

X. Luther and Melanchthon were associates of the Augsburg Confession, held as such by everyone, and stayed heart-devoted to it to the end of their course, even though they disagreed on how Christ's body is exhibited in the Holy Supper.

In the same way the Reformed, no less than the Lutherans, remain associates of the Augsburg Confession, even when they do not fully agree on that point and on certain other school questions.

Addendum and correction: p. 13, line 5 — for Christianum Pontanum read Christianum Bajerum, after the Most Serene Elector obtained by petition from Emperor Charles V that the Augsburg Confession should also be read aloud in German in Germany and in the city of Augsburg. See Clar. Pipping, Einleitung zu den Symbol. Schrifften Lutherischer Kirchen.

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IX. Utut Ubiquitismus, & quicquid ei annexum est, ingens error sit, quoniam tamen per actum quendam solennem, in Generali quadam aut Nationali Synodo, nondum improbatus est, propugnatores quoque ejus adeò diversimodè de eo loquuntur, ut quid propriè statuant, intelligi vix queat, aestimandum est, tolerari adhuc, & approbantes istum, nihilo secius Augustanae Confessionis Sociis annumerandos esse. X. Quemadmodum & D. Lutherus, & M. Phil. Melanchthon, Augustanae Confessionis Socii fuêre, tales ab omnibus habiti, eique ad finem usque viae ex intimo corde addicti permansêre, licèt de modo exhibitionis Corporis Christi in S. Coena, dissenserint; Ita Reformati aequè ac Lutherani Socii Augustanae Confessionis permanent, quamvis in eodem, & aliis quibusdam quaestionibus scholasticis, non penitus inter se conveniant. Addendum & emendandum: Pag. 13. lin. 5. Pro: Christianum Pontanum, lege: Christianum Bajerum, postquam SERENISSIMUS ELECTOR ab IMPERATORE CAROLO V. precibus impetrasset, ut Augustana Confessio, in Germania inq Augusta Vindelicorum Civitate, etiam Germanico Idiomate prelegeretur. Vid. Clar. Pipping/ in der Einleitung zu den Symbol. Schrifften Lutherischer Kirchen.

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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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