A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §334

Annotatio I §.III close: Circumcision and Passover institutions predicate improperly — stop before Baptism/Cup

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(a) In circumcision’s Institution (Gen. 17:10–11) God’s covenant is predicated of circumcision only improperly — circumcision is the sign of the covenant, God Himself explaining in the next verse.

(b) In the Passover Institution (Exod. 12:11, 21, 27) passover / passage is predicated only improperly of the lamb and of its slaughter and eating — the same species of trope by which Christ is our passover (1 Cor. 5:7) and the desert rock was Christ by signification, not substance (Augustine, Quaest. Lev. 57).

Stop before §.III continuation (Baptism and Cup Institution inductions; SPECIFICA genus).

Latin

Quando enim (a) in Institutione Circumcisionis, Deus ita Abrahamum alloquitur: Hoc est foedus meum inter me & inter vos & semen tuum post te, quod servabis, ut circumcidatur vobis omnis mas Gen. 17, 10. foedus Dei de circumcisione non nisi impropriè praedicatur: Neque enim Circumcisio propriè foedus est, sed signum foederis, Deô ipsômet interprete versu proximè sequente 11. Debetis autem praeputium carnis praescindere, hocque ipsum foederis signum futurum est inter me & vos. Quando (b) in Institutione Paschatos, totum populum, Moses, nomine Dei, ita, informat: Agnus à vobis, in star festinantium, comedendus, est pascha Domini, Exod. 12, 11. item: Accipite agnum quilibet paterfamilias pro familia sua & mactate pascha, versu 21. Item: si quis ex vobis, agno mactato vescentibus, quaesiverit: quid rei seu officii hic peragitis? Respondebitis: est Pascha sacrificium Domini filios Israelis praetereuntis in Egypto, vers. 27. in propositionibus hisce cunctis, pascha, seu transitus, tam de agno, quàm de mactatione & comesione agni, nonnisi impropriè enunciatur, substantiâ agni nequaquam in actionem transeuntem, per praedicationem aliquam propriam, convertendâ, & quidem per ejusdem speciei tropum, per quem in N. T. ipse Christus pascha nostrum dicitur 1. Cor. 5. vers. 7. nec non petra, Israelitas in deserto secuta: Solet enim res quae significat, ejus rei nomine, quam significat, nuncupari, sicut scriptum est, septem spicae septem anni sunt & multa hujusmodi. Hinc est quod dictum est petra erat Christus: non enim dixit: petra significat Christum, sed tanquam hoc esset! Utique per substantiam hoc non erat, sed per significationem, sunt verba Augustini, quaest. supra Levit. 57.

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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