A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §189

Annotatio II §.VI open: Dissensus reaches Fastigium — Hunnius attacks Predestination sentence nearly universal since Augustine, received by first Reformers of both parties

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§. VI. Not long after the Formula of Concord came into print — a story already more than familiar — the Dissensus hit its peak.

Aegidius Hunnius struck at the Predestination teaching that, from Augustine onward, had been all but the rule of the Western Church, and that the first Reformers on both Protestant sides had taken over: Luther and Zwingli, as pupils of Augustine and of Thomas Aquinas.

Latin

§. VI. Dissensus ad Fastigium pervenit quando, paulò post Formulam Concordiae in lucem publicam editam, cujus Historia satis superque nota, Sententiam de Praedestinatione inde ab Augustini temporibus Occidentali Ecclesiae tantùm non Universa, etiam Reformatoribus ejus primis utriusque Protestantium partis, Luthero Zwinglio, utpote Augustini & Thomae Aquinatis Discipulis, receptam, Ægidius Hunnius oppugnavit,

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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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