A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §311

Annotatio VI §.III open: If Lutherans dropped acerbic mode or swapped damnations for bare rejections

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§. III. If today’s named Lutherans would drop this harsher way of handling controversies — or at least trade their damnations (not unlike Tridentine anathematisms) for bare rejections of opinions they judge false —

then even if those opinions may perish on their own view, the authors and favorers of them (erring, if at all, in good faith) are above all to be saved, and spiritual fraternity is to be kept with them.

Latin

§. III. Acerbiorem hunc Controversias tractandi modum si facessere juberent hodieque nominati Lutherani, vel saltem Damnationes suas, Anathematismis Tridentinis haud absimiles, in Rejectiones nudas falsarum sibi ita visarum Opinionum commutarent, quibus licèt, juxta se, perituris aliquando, Autores tamen Fautoresque earum (utpote, si omnino, certè bonâ fide errantes) salvandi sint maximè & cum his Fraternitatem Spiritualem colendi,

About this text

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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