A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §207

Annotatio III §.II: Zurich reply (German) — joy at Luther’s answer; Capito and Bucer’s report; Basel Confession accepted; unity on Word, Baptism, and Supper without empty signs — Hucusque Tigurini

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The Zurich letter opens: Honorable, highly learned friend in Christ — we received with highest joy your kind answer to the writing we sent you toward Schmalkalden, thanking our heavenly Father.

From your letter and from Capito and Bucer’s faithful report while they were with us, we can only take it that you mean this holy unity well, and that you gladly accept our Basel Confession with the Declaration that followed.

On the outward Word and Baptism you find no misunderstanding; on the holy Sacrament of Christ’s body and blood we gather you have never taught — and do not teach — a descent or ascent from the Father’s right hand that would set a presence or eating in the Supper contrary to the true incarnation and ascension.

We for our part refuse bare empty signs in the Supper: the Lord’s body and blood are received, yet truly grasped only by the believing mind, as our Confession and Declaration sent to Schmalkalden still hold.

So we now see nothing else than that — God be praised — we are one in understanding and right substance, at peace, with no dispute left between us. (Full page Hh.) Thus far the Zurichers’ words.

Latin

Ehrwürdiger Hochgelahrter in Christo / w. sonders geliebter Herr und Freund / wir haben euere freundliche und gutherzige Antwort / die ihr uns auf das Schreiben / welches wir euch gen Schmalkalden gethan / verschienen Tagen zugesandt / mit höchster Freud und Frolocken zu GOtt unserm himlischen Vater / empfangen / ... Und dieweil wir den nicht allein aus eurem Schreiben / sondern auch der hochgelehrten unserer insonders geliebten Herrn / Freunde und Brüdern / D. Capitonis und Buceri ... nicht anders verstehen können / denn das ihr den Handel dieser heiligen Einigkeit wol und gut meinet / ... desgleichen auch unser zu Basel gestellete Confeßion / zu sampt der darauff gefolgten Declaration ... zu gutem gefallen annemet / ... Dieweil wir auch der Artickel halben vom eufferlichen Wort und Tauffe / sehen / das E.E. keinen Misverstand findet / ... und daneben bey dem Artickel des heiligen Sacraments des Leibs und Bluts Christi verstanden / das ihr noch nie gelehret habt / auch noch nicht lehret / daß Christus vom Himmel / von der rechten Hand Gottes seines Vaters hernieder und auffahre ... und also keine Gegenwärtigkeit / oder Niessung des Leibes und Bluts Christi im heiligen Abendmahl setzet / aus der etwas folgete / das der wahren Menschwerdung und Himmelfahrt Christi ... wiedrig ... wir auch dagegen nicht wollen / das im Abendmahl allein blosse oder leere zeichen / sondern auch der Leib und das Blut des HErrn empfangen und genossen werde / also / das dis an ihm selbst allein durch das gläubige Gemuth warlich begriffen und empfangen werde / ... so können wir numehr nicht anders sehen noch befinden / denn das wir / (Gott hab Lob) im Verstande und rechter substanz mit einander einig / und zu gutem Frieden / auch kein Streit mehr zwischen uns sey ... Pag. integra Hh / Hucusque verba Tigurinorum,

About this text

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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