A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §317

HEXAS De Coena Domini Annotatio I open §.I: Why Priores — unde Schismatis initium

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Here begins the Hexad of Annotations on the earlier Protestant fights over the Lord’s Supper — the place where the schism took its start.

ANNOTATION I asks whether the Institution words of the Sacred Supper are to be taken properly or figuratively.

§. I. Our author himself shows why he calls those Supper controversies Priores when he adds the clause: whence the beginning of the Schism.

Latin

HEXAS ANNOTATIONUM IN CONTROVERSIAS PROTESTANTICAS PRIORES DE COENA DOMINI, UNDE INITIUM SCHISMATIS, ANNOTATIO I De Sensu verborum Institutionis Sacrae Coenae, proprio ne, an figurato? §. I. Cur Controversiae Protestanticæ de Coena Domini, Autori nostro Priores dicantur, ipsemet haud obscurè subinnuit, quando subjicit: unde Schismatis initium.

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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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