A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §313

Annotatio VI §.III: Bergen Fathers already — Rejicimus (non damnamus) four election errors (Art. XI Negativa)

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The Bergen Fathers already did something like this in the Negative of Article XI.

They write: We therefore reject (but do not damn) all the errors we shall now list — that God does not will all to repent and believe; that His call is not serious for all; that some are doomed by bare counsel apart from their sins; that election’s cause lies partly in us, not only in God’s mercy and Christ’s merit (p. m. 591).

Latin

Factum jam tùm hujusmodi quid ab ipsis Patribus Bergensibus in Negativa Artic. XImi, quando ita scribunt: Rejicimus itaque (non autem damnamus) omnes, quos jam enumerabimus errores: (1.) Quòd Deus nolit, ut omnes homines paenitentiam agant & Evangelio credant. (2.) Quando DEus nos ad se vocat, quod non serio hoc velit, ut omnes homines ad ipsum veniant. (3.) DEum non velle, ut omnes salventur, sed quosdam, non ratione peccatorum suorum, verùm solô Dei Consilio, proposito & Voluntate ad exitium destinatos esse, ut prorsus Salutem consequi non possint. (4.) Quod non sola DEi Misericordia & Sanctissimum Christi Meritum; sed etiam in nobis ipsis aliqua Causa sit Electionis Divinae, cujus Causae ratione Deus nos ad vitam aeternam elegerit. p. m. 591.

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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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