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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §23

Part I Protheoria: Digression — Lutheran concord not Remonstrant or Pontifical syncretism

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But in the matter of mutual Tolerance and of fraternal Concord sought among the Churches of Protestants, the cause of those called Lutherans must not be confused — as some would wish — with that of today's Remonstrants, concerning whose Schism the Reformed judgment was not the same, and whose Dogmas were reviewed at length above. Still less is the cause of the Augsburg Brethren, in the irenic business, to be set beside that of the Pontiffs, though today's Roman Methodists may try to compose both. Hence both parties — Remonstrants and Pontiffs alike — have long solicited us toward Syncretism in Religion, with an eye to the communion offered to the brethren of the Augsburg Confession. And the Pontiffs have done so in that Method they call Richelian, which the Gallican Clergy lately revived, as Method 1: leading us by their Missionaries into Communion with the Roman Church. In particular the same Bishop of Condom, now of Meaux, pressed it in Chapter II of his Catholic or Tridentine Exposition.

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Caeterum in materia Tolerantiae mutuae, fraternaeque Concordiae, quaesitae inter Protestantium Ecclesias, non confundenda est (ut vellent) Lutheranorum, qui sic vocantur causa, cum illa hodiernorum Remonstrantium, de quorum Schismate non par Reformatis judicium fuit, & quorum Dogmata prolixe ante recensita. Minus conferenda Augustanorum Fratrum causa, in negotio Irenico, cum Pontificiorum altera, componant licet utramque Methodistae hodierni Romanenses. Unde nos utrique, & Remonstrantes & Pontificii, pridem ad Syncretismum in Religione sollicitarunt, intuitu oblatae communionis fratribus Confessionis Augustanae. Ac fecerunt Pontificii quidem, in ea Methodo quam Richelianam vocant, & quam revocavit nuper Clerus Gallicanus, in Methodo 1. inducendis nobis per Missionarios suos ad Communionem cum Rom. Ecclesia; In specie quoque urfit idem Condomiensis, nunc Meldensis Episcopus, Expositionis Catholicae seu Tridentinae, Cap. II.

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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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