A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §269

Annotatio V §.I: Limits opposite Obstacles — by right (jure), not merely de facto

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§. I. Limits stand opposite Obstacles: limits are understood of right, obstacles of fact.

An unjust boundary acts like an obstacle; a just obstacle acts like a limit.

So here the limits of church consociation are not whatever happens to obtain in practice, but what by divine and church right can and ought to be set.

Latin

§. I. Limites, Obicibus oppositi, intelliguntur de Jure, uti Obices de facto. Quemadmodum limes injustus, obicis, ita obex justus, limitis naturam induit. Hinc limites Consociationis Ecclesiasticae hoc loco intelliguntur, non quales actu & de facto dantur, sed quales jure, & quidem Divinô ac Ecclesiastico, dari & possent, & debent.

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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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