A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §307

Annotatio VI §.II: Triple difference — nude confictae, adiaphora, and real heads (German Einigkeit tract)

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Our author therefore sorts this class into a threefold difference.

Some items are bare fabrications — questions of fact, not of right — that never entered any Reformer’s mind (Is God the author of sin? Is He omnipotent in bodily supper-presence? Is He merciful in the doctrine of grace?).

Others are lesser adiaphorous rites, where Lutherans would easily find the Reformed compliant.

Others again are more real and touch the three principal heads (see our German Short Sketch of Unity, §.XIII ff.).

Latin

Ut inde Autori nostro haec controversiarum Classis, in triplici differentia jure collocetur, quarum aliae nude confictae sint, quaestiones facti, non juris, quales Reformatorum nemini unquam in mentem venerunt, e. gr. Num Deus sit Autor Peccati? in Capite de Providentia Dei; Num omnipotens? in Capite de Praesentia Corporali in Coena; Num misericors? in doctrina de gratia, &c. Aliae minoris momenti, de ritibus & ceremoniis adiaphoris, in quibus facile Reformatos haberent obsequentes Lutherani: Aliae denique reales magis, ad tria dicta Capita Principalia pertinentes. Conf. in Annot. preced. cit. Tractatulum nost. Germanicum, Kurzer Entwurff der Einigkeit der Evangelisch-Lutherischen und Reformirten §.XIII. & seqq.

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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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