A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §325

Annotatio I §.II: No Protestant fight on the first two; only the third remains — is the literal sense proper or improper?

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On the first two meanings Protestants have no lawsuit: both sides hold the formal (and equipollent) words, and one genuine sense that fits Christ’s mind.

Only the third stays doubtful and contested.

So the disputed “literal” sense of the words in the proposition reduces to this: is that literal sense proper, or improper?

Latin

Enimverò de prioribus duabus significationibus τοῦ capiendi verba κατὰ τὸ ῥητόν, vel τῷ ῥητῷ retinendi, litigium nullum inter Protestantes, utrâque parte persuasâ, tam Verba formalia & aequipollentia quaecunque, quàm verborum utrorumque sensum genuinum, h. e. semper unum eundemque, verum illum mentique Christi convenientem, tenendum servandumque esse, ut sola tertia in dubio maneat & controversa. Confirmatur: scil. literalem verborum, in propositione spectatorum, controversum sensum ad hoc recidere: Num Sensus literalis, proprius, an verò improprius sit?

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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