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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §25

Part I Protheoria: Remonstrant cause unequal to Lutheran — Luther De Servo Arbitrio

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Nor indeed is the Remonstrant cause and the Lutheran on equal footing, even in the business of Predestination and its annexed Heads. The points above already teach as much, where the Rinteln Theologians explained their own mind and their party's, afterward defended by them in their Apology. And in this cause we appeal to the Leipzig men, to Gerhard, to Calixtus, even to Calov in his Consideration of Arminianism, and others — but before all to Luther himself. For there was no controversy with Luther concerning Predestination, or the total Impotence of the bound Will, or God's Providence about evil actions: he strongly asserted Augustine's doctrine — which is also Paul's — in the Book on the Bondage of the Will, issued against Erasmus toward the end of 1525. For in it there occur even more dreadful things concerning the Divine Decrees and the necessity of sinning than in Calvin himself — as all candid men confess, whatever escapes Luther's grandsons may have tried to seize.

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Nec par sane ratio est causae Remonstranticae & Lutheranae, etiam in negotio Praedestinationis, annexorumve Capitum. Docent vel superiora, ubi suam suorumque mentem Rintelenfes Theologi explicuerunt, defensam ab iisdem postea in Apologia sua. Et appellamus in hac causa Lipsiacos, Gerhardum, Calixtum, imo Calovium in Considerat. Arminianismi, &c. sed ante omnia Lutherum ipsum. Nec enim ulla de Praedestinatione, vel de totali Impotentia servi Arbitrii, vel de Providentia Dei circa actiones malas, cum Luthero controversia fuit, doctrinam Augustini, quae & Pauli, fortiter asserente Libro de Servo Arbitrio, quem emisit contra Erasmum sub finem A. 1525. Nam in eo etiam occurrere horridiora de Decretis Divinis, & de peccandi necessitate, quam in Calvino ipso, fassi omnes ingenui, quaecunque effugia Lutheri nepotes captave-

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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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