A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §333

Annotatio I §.III GENERICA nearer: Signatum de signo — metonymy/synecdoche when sign ≠ thing; sacramental induction

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(II) As nearer genus, the GENERIC view shows the sacramental proposition predicating the thing signified of the sign.

That can be proper only when sign and thing are materially the same; when they differ, the predication is metonymic or synechdochic — sign for thing, container for content, or part for whole — and so improper.

Induction from Old and New Testament sacramentals in the Supper’s own Institution confirms that a horistic sacramental proposition is improper by nature.

Latin

(II) GENERICA quà genus propius, exhibet propositionem sacramentalem, in qua signatum de signo praedicatur. Etsi verò sic praedicatio propria esse possit, quando nim. Signum cum signato materialiter idem est, tamen non potest non esse impropria, quandocunque signum & signatum materialiter differunt, sive signum nude significans, sive praetereà signati exhibitivum, habeatur: Utroque enim modo praedicatio evadit vel metonymica, vel synechdochica, eòque impropria. Priori quidem, per metonymiam signi pro signato; posteriori verò, vel per metonymiam continentis pro contento, vel per synechdochen partis pro toto. Confirmatur, sacramentalem propositionem ὁριστικὴν, suâ naturâ impropriam esse, Inductione etiam singularum Sacramentalium tam Veteris, quàm N. Testamenti, in ipsa quoque S. Coenae institutione, occurrentis.

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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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