A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §215

Annotatio III §.IV: Melanchthon to the Elector — silence quarrelers; keep one Forma of Paul’s κοινωνία words; declare the Supper’s fruit; the Son is present for man, not for bread

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Some of Melanchthon’s words to the Elector are worth keeping: he approves the Elector’s counsel that both sides’ quarrelers be silenced, lest the tender church split and the weak nearby be troubled — and he wishes such quarrelers gone from either party.

Second, once the contentious are removed, the rest should agree on one Forma of words; best here is to keep Paul’s: the bread we break is the κοινωνία of the body — and to speak richly of the Supper’s fruit so people love this pledge and use it often, declaring what κοινωνία means.

Melanchthon inserts: the Son of God is present in the ministry of the Gospel and efficacious in believers — present not for the bread but for the man ("Abide in me…"; "I am in my Father, and you in me…"). By these consolations he makes us his members and promises to vivify our bodies.

Latin

Verba quaedam memorari juvat: Probo (scribit Melanchthon ad Electorem) Consilium Illustrissimi Electoris, quod rixantibus utrinque mandavit silentium, ne distractio fiat in tenera Ecclesia & infirmi turbentur in illo loco & vicinia, & optarem rixatores in utraque parte abesse. Secundò, remotis contentiosis, prodest reliquos de una Forma verborum convenire & in hac controversia optimum est retinere verba Pauli: Panis quem frangimus κοινωνία ἐστὶ τοῦ σώματος, & copiosè de fructu caenae dicendum est, ut incitentur Homines ad amorem hujus pignoris & crebrum usum; & vocabulum κοινωνία declarandum est. Paucisque interfertis: Adest, inquit Melanchthon, Filius Dei in Ministerio Evangelii & ibi certè efficax est in credentibus, ac adest, non propter Panem, sed propter Hominem, sicut inquit: Manete in me, & ego in vobis. Item: Ego sum in Patre meo, & vos in me & Ego in vobis. Et his veris Consolationibus facit nos sibi membra & testatur se corpora nostra vivificaturum esse.

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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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