A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §340

Annotatio I §.IV open SPECIFICA: Testimonies acknowledging impropriety — Fathers explicit; stop before Picherellus catalog

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§. IV. Arguments for the specific nature of the proposition under debate are drawn chiefly from those who acknowledge its impropriety in species — expressly, or implicitly by their interpretations.

EXPLICITLY figurative: the more ancient Church Fathers (collected by Oecolampadius and Melanchthon), the Reformed Jonstonus, and the Pontifician Picherellus (Opusc. Theol. p. 28).

Stop before the Picherellus / Tertullian catalog and further SPECIFICA testimonies.

Latin

§. IV. Argumenta, specificam propositionis, de qua adhuc disquiritur, naturam attingentia, istorum potissimum testimoniis conficiuntur, qui improprietatem ejus in specie, vel disertè atque explicitè, vel per interpretationes suas, sicque implicite, agnoscunt ac confitentur. EXPLICITE figuratam statuunt (1) PATRES ECCLESIAE ANTIQUIORES, quorum testimonia summâ industriâ collegit ex primis Reformatoribus Oecolampadius, in Dialogo, Melanchton, in consilio Epistolico, ad Fridericum Palatinum misso; Ex recentioribus Johannes Jonstonus Reformatus Syntag. de Commun. veteris Ecclesiae cap. 3. art. 3. §. 3. à pag. mihi 86. ad pag. 100. Et Petrus Picherellus Pontificius Opuscul. Theol. p. 28.

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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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