A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §230

Annotatio III §.VI Decretum close: Continue the Leipzig collation; keep Christian moderation in teaching and writing; public prayers; Act Frankfurt 14 Sept. 1634 — stop before §.VII Cassellanum

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Some legates also offered friendly proposals: that the Circles forward at once a declaration on Dury’s proposed procedure and on a peaceable theologians’ colloquy — modeled on the Leipzig collation three years earlier among Saxon, Brandenburg, and Hessian-Cassel electoral theologians — and that the Electors invite foreign princes and kings by letters.

Others usefully proposed that, saving each Elector’s, prince’s, and Estate’s rights, Electors Saxony and Brandenburg be asked to continue that Leipzig-friendly collation and call a convention where other peaceable theologians of either party can sit or send judgments — aiming at a modest Christian consensus-confession on every salvation-foundation head, while parking scholastic fights on the rest.

Several also agreed that meanwhile both sides should use Christian moderation and mildness in teaching and writing, and that public prayers for the work be framed in both parties’ churches, committing the business to God Most High.

This recess was made in witness of that. Done at Frankfurt am Main, 14 September 1634.

Stop before §. VII (Cassellanum).

Latin

Adhaec quaedam optimo animo a Legatis quibusdam proposita fuere: nempe, quòd ab una parte consultum judicabant, ut praedictam Declarationem (quae de modo procedendi, quem praenominatus Duraeus proposuit, deque via, pacificorum quorundam Theologorum colloquium, in quo unanimis fidei de fundamentalibus salutis nostrae capitibus confessio institui possit, ad exemplum amicae illius collationis, quae ante triennium Lipziae inter Theologos Electorales Saxonicos, Brandenburgicos & Hassiacos-Cassellanos inita fuit) primo quoque tempore superiores Imperii Circuli mittant; atque ut ab hisce Electoribus invitentur scriptis Literis Invitoriis tam exteri Principes & Reges: Ab alia autem parte Alii hanc quoque proponebant utilem rationem, ut salvis cujusque Electoris, Principis & Status praetensionibus & juribus, rogarentur Serenissimi Electores Saxonicus atque Brandenburgicus, dignentur inceptam Lipziae ante tres annos amicam collationem continuare, atque hunc in finem conventum indicere, cui etiam alii utriusque partis evocati pacifici Theologi intersint; atque in eo conventu buc praesertim fore respiciendum, ut consensus, quoad fieri potest, modestè ineatur in Christiana atque unanimi Confessione, quae contineat omnia & singula, quae salutis fundamentum concernunt, Religionis capita: in reliquis autem capitibus disputationem atque contentionem Scholasticam esse seponendam. Praeter haec etiam & in hoc aliqui amicam consensionem suam apertè declararunt; quòd intereà temporis omnis ab utraque parte tàm in docendo, quàm scribendo Christiana moderatio & lenitas usurpanda sit; atque hoc fine, in utriusque partis templis, publicas preces esse concipiendas, quibus negotium Deo O. M. commendetur. In cujus rei testimonium hic recessus hac de re factus est. Actum Francofurti ad Moenum 14. Sept. Anno 1634.

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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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