A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §366

Annotatio II §.II: Babylonian Captivity Deus est homo parallel; Musculus absolves personal union

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In On the Babylonian Captivity he compares bread–body union with the hypostatic union (Deus est homo), which looks personal.

Yet his Greater Confession on the Supper denies a personal mode, and the Captivity comparison is only bare Disparate-of-Disparate predication — so Musculus (among ours) absolves him from personal union of body and blood.

Latin

Ex altera parte, Unionem panis & Corporis Christi in Eucharistia cum Unione humanae Christi naturae, & personae ejus divinae, in libro de Captivitate Babylonica Tom. 2. mihi p. 265. eum in modum comparat, ut huic per omnia similem fecisse visus sit; tamen, quia tum ipse Lutherus posteriorem Unionis modum, seu personalem, conceptis verbis in Confessione sua majore de Coena, negat; in Libro autem de Captivitate Babylonica, Transsubstantiationem pontificiam refutaturus, panisque in Coena praesentiam adstructurus, inter propositiones has duas: Hoc, seu, hic panis est corpus meum, Et, Deus est homo, nudam duntaxat earum comparationem instituisse deprehenditur & ostendere gestivisse, quô modô utrobique Disparatum de Disparato praedicetur; (Quô nomine etiam inter nostrates Wolfgangus Musculus, Lutherum à personali corporis & sanguinis Christi Unione absolvit Loci commun. p. m. 354.)

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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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