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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §22

Part I Protheoria: Formula of Discord — Frederick III, Predestination ulcer, hardening causes

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through Germany — so far that they rose even against the best and most pious Princes: as when a fierce tempest was stirred against Frederick III of the Palatinate, with Jakob Andreae, Heshusius, and Bidenbach as chief firebrands, that they might shut pious Frederick out of the Peace of Religion and the Society of the Augsburg Confession — though they would fail at the Augsburg Diet of 1566. At last the Formula of Concord finished the work — first the Torgau Formula, afterward the Bergen — of which we have just spoken: in truth a Formula of Discord, and the complement of a lasting Schism. Elector Ludwig of the Palatinate protested at once, though most devoted to the Lutherans, and other Princes with him, and also the weightiest Theologians — Hospinian, Alting, and the rest already praised at length. But the unhappy Controversy concerning Predestination and its annexed Heads, born chiefly through Samuel Huber and then through Aegidius Hunnius of Wittenberg around the year 1580 — or so Georg Calixtus testifies below on the Confession of Thorn, p. 14 — drew the ulcer wider and rendered it incurable.

And at last they have hardened that Evangelical dissent down to this very day: Satan's malign craft (κακοτεχνία); the hidden arts of the many-scheming Jesuits (τῶν πολυμηχάνων); the calculations of Politicians who serve Rome or their own advantage; and among Theologians for the most part a spiteful rivalry (κακοζηλία), pride, hatreds, calumnies, prejudices, eristic and virulent writings, and private ambitions in very many cases — as it happens — and it will have no end until, by the authority of the Most Serene Princes and by a greater force if one ever intervenes, they are coerced.

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per Germaniam; adeo ut etiam in optimos pientissimosque Principes insurgerent, qualiter in Fridericum III. Palatinum atrox tempestas excitata, incentoribus praecipue J. Andreae, Heshusio, Bidenbachio, ut scilicet Fridericum Pium Pace Religionis, & Societate Augustanae Confess. excluderent, frustra futuri in Comitiis Augustanis A. 1566. Absolvit ultimo Formula Concordiae primo Torgensis, Bergensis postea, de qua modo dictum, re vera Discordiae Formula, & duraturi Schismatis Complementum; reclamaturis statim, Ludovico Elect. Palatino, Lutheranis quanquam addictissimo, aliisque Principibus, sed & Theologis gravissimis, ut fuse laudati Hospinianus, Altingius, &c. Sed diduxit ulcus in majus ac insanabile reddidit infelix Controversia de Praedestinatione, & annexis Capitibus nata praecipue, per Sam. Huberum, tum per Aegid. Hunnium Wittenbergensem, circa A. 1580. vel teste infra Georgio Calixto ad Confessionem Thorunensem, p. 14. Ac tandem obfirmarunt in hunc usque diem Evangelicor. istud dissidium, Satanae κακοτεχνία; occultae Jesuitarum artes τῶν πολυμηχάνων; Politicorum rationes Romae servientium, aut commodis suis; ac Theologorum plerumque κακοζηλία, typhus, odia, calumniae, praejudicia, scripta eristica & virulenta, ac privata in plurimis studia, ut accidit, nec habitura finem, donec Serenissimorum Principum auctoritate, ac vi majore, si interveniat unquam, coerceantur.

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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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