A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §318

Annotatio I §.I: Not priority of Dignity or Order (Sennert) — but of Time and Acerbitas

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They are not “prior” by dignity — as if they alone were some fundamental article of the faith, or the chief matter Protestants hammer out among themselves.

Nor by order — as if a methodical theological system would have to put them first.

Even some Lutherans deprecate those kinds of priority (Sennert, Exercises on fundamental articles §§. 64–65, fasc. pp. 430–431).

Latin

Scilicet priores audiunt, non prioritate Dignitatis, quòd fundamentalem quendam fidei Christianae articulum, aut principalem istorum concernunt qui sub disputationes incudem à Protestantibus, & inter se, revocantur; nec Prioritate Ordinis, quòd in Methodica, id est, juxta naturalem Systematis Theologici methodum disposita Controversiarum Protestanticarum tractatione, primum locum mererentur. Has enim prioritatis species vel Lutheranorum nonnulli deprecabuntur, per rationes plurimas ab And. Sennerto in unum collectas, Exerc. Theol. de articulis fid. fundamentalibus §. 64. & 65. p. Fasciculi exercitationum ejus 430. & 431.

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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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