A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §246

Annotatio III §.VIII Rescript: Private colloquies and letters abroad; procure church peace at least in Our realm

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Yours, then, as Bishop and President of this whole assembly, will be to make those Assessors sure of Our most clement will declared in this Rescript.

Meet and confer with them first inside private walls, without noise.

See that — by colloquies and by letters to foreign theologians — solid means are found by which the church peace all Evangelical Protestants long for may be procured and settled, if not elsewhere, at least in Our Kingdom, Electorate, and other lands.

Latin

Tuum itaque, ceu Episcopi, totiusque hujus Consessus Praesidis, erit, nominatos Viros Assessores tuos de clementissima voluntate Nostra, Rescripto hoc declarata, certiores facere, cum iisdem, intra privatos primùm parietes, sine strepitu, convenire ac colloqui, idque agere, ut tùm per colloquia, tùm literas, ad extraneos Theologos dandas, valida media inveniantur, quibus Pax Ecclesiastica, omnibus Protestantium Evangelicorum votis exoptata, si non alibi, in Nostro saltem Regno, Electoratu exterisque terris, procuretur & stabiliatur.

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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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