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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §176

Annotatio II open §.I: Fundamental consensus of AC Socii — fundamentals vs fundamentata; scriptural sense (Christ / 1 Cor 3:11 / Eph 2)

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ANNOTATION II. On the Augsburg Confession associates' fundamental consensus and their praeter-fundamental dissent — and on that dissent's origin, progress, and outcome. To the Author's pp. 332–333.

§. I. The associates' fundamental consensus looks to the foundation of the Christian religion — Christian doctrine, theoretical and practical — of which some doctrines are fundamentals and others are built on them (fundamentata).

The former, taken in the scriptural sense, are the doctrines concerning Christ, our only Saviour, God and Man: the highest, first foundation for everything else (1 Cor. 3:11: "For other foundation can no man lay," &c.).

Here "Christ" means chiefly the doctrine about Christ, not only his person — clear from what precedes and what follows. Paul as wise architect is said to have laid the foundation (Christ); what he laid was not Christ himself but the gospel-doctrine about Christ, the base on which other Christian doctrines are built.

What follows confirms it: others are to build on that foundation gold, silver, wood, stubble — many things founded on the fundamental doctrine of Christ, some precious and useful, some cheaper and futile.

Eph. 2:20 says the same in one verse: Apostles and Prophets (i.e. their chief doctrines, not their persons) are called foundation, and Christ the cornerstone — that is, the doctrine of Christ is named the principal and most fundamental.

Latin

ANNOTATIO II. De Sociorum Confessionis Augustanae Consensu Fundamentali & Dissensu Praeter-fundamentali, hujusque Ortu, Progressu & Exitu, Ad Pag. Autoris 332. & 333. §. I. Consensus Fundamentalis Sociorum Confessionis Augustanae, respicit Fundamentum Christianae Religionis, seu Doctrinae Christianae, tam Theoreticae, quàm Practicae, quippe quarum Doctrinarum aliae Fundamentales, aliae Fundamentatae sunt. PRIORES, seu Fundamentales, accipiuntur VEL SENSU SCRIPTURARIO, & sunt Doctrinae de Christo, unico Salvatore nostro, Deo & Homine, reliquis Fundamentum praebiturae omnium summum, seu primum, 1. Cor. 3. v. 11. Aliud equidem Fundamentum nemo potest ponere &c. Nam per Christum hoc in loco, non solam Personam Christi, sed potissimum Doctrinam de Christo intelligendam esse, patet, tum ex Antecedentibus, tum ex Consequentibus. Ex Antecedentibus quidem: Quandoquidem Fundamentum (Christus) à Paulo, ceu prudenti Architecto, positum dicitur; Erat autem à Paulo non Christus ipse positus, sed Doctrina seu Evangelium de Christo, ceu Fundamentum omnium Doctrinarum Christianae Religionis, Doctrinae de Christo superaedificandarum. Ex Consequentibus, quia alii aliique, dicuntur Fundamento superaedificaturi, Aurum, Argentum, Lignum, Stipulas, i. e. Fundamentali de Christo Doctrinae, Fundamentatas plurimas, alias preciosiores ac utiles, alias minus preciosas ac futiles. Quin idem probatur ex Eph. 2. ubi unô eôdemque vigesimo versiculo, tàm Apostoli & Prophetae, i. e. Doctrinae Apostolorum & Prophetarum praecipuae, non autem Personae eorum, Fundamentum salutantur, quam Christus Lapis Angularis, i. e. Doctrina de Christo Principalissima & maximè Fundamentalis dicitur.

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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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