A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §308

Annotatio VI §.II Mode: Acerbic treatment — odious; prostitutes sacred order and the Protestant cause

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The mode of treatment is usually more acerbic.

Pious Christians and the more sober theologians alike hate it.

It foully prostitutes sacred things, the sacred order, and the Protestant cause — and nearly brands them with the worst infamy — sunk even below the quarrels, calumnies, and shameless abuse of the crowd and of old women.

Latin

Modum tractandi plerumque acerbiorem, omnibusque tàm piis Christianis quibuscunque, quàm ipsis Theologis cordatioribus exosum, ac res sacras, & Sacrum ordinem, & Causam Protestanticam, turpiter prostituentem, & tantum non pessimum in modum infamantem, etiam vel infra vulgi ipsarumque vetularum rixas, altercationes, calumnias, verba contumeliosa atque propudia projectum,

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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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