A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §279

Annotatio V §.II Ratiocinative close: Church members who keep essentials — even amid many non-overturning errors — stop before §.IV

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Just as people with a body and a rational soul still count as human and as members of one society — even when the soul’s force is weak and some bodily members are badly misshapen —

so those who keep the church’s essentials, theoretical and practical, should be counted sharers in the same church Consociation,

even while they wrestle with many errors and sins that do not overturn the Christian religion.

Stop before §. IV (consensus and Consociation judged from the same fundamental principle).

Latin

Sicuti verò hominibus accensentur & societate humana eâdem contineri putantur, qui corpore & animâ rationali praediti sunt, licèt quandoque & animae rationalis vis virtusque exigua perquam, & Corporis membra nonnulla multum deformata inveniantur; ita ejusdem Consociationis Ecclesiasticae participes aestimandi, qui Ecclesiae Christianae essentialia, tàm Theoretica, quam Practica servant, licèt cum erroribus pariter atque peccatis Christianam Religionem haud evertentibus, etiam benè multis, colluctentur.

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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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