A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §371

Annotatio II §.III (1): Irenaeus — Eucharist of earthly and celestial; restricted to use

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(1) Irenaeus (A.D. 160) is the stock witness for two things, earthly and celestial, in the Eucharist after invocation.

But bk. 5 restricts the saying to use: celestial souls feed on celestial substance; earthly bodies on earthly — the creature-cup and creature-bread confirmed as His blood and body when they receive God’s word.

Latin

(1) Duas hîc Substantias memorat unus omnium instar Irenæus Anno Dni. 160: Panis, inquit, qui est à terra, percipiens invocationem Dei, jam non communis panis est, sed Eucharistia ex duabus rebus constans, terrena & cælesti, libro 4. contra hæres. cap. 34.; Sed libro 5. cap. 12. idem ferè repetens, adjicit tamen, se verba sua ad usum sacræ Eucharistiæ restricta velle, in quo fiat, ut quemadmodum animæ cælestes, cælesti substantia, ceu alimento sibi proprio, sic corpora terrestria substantia terrestri nutriantur & augescant: Eum, inquit, Calicem, qui est creatura, suum sanguinem, & eum panem, qui est creatura, suum corpus confirmavit: Quando ergo calix & panis percipiunt verbum Dei, fit Eucharistia sanguinis & corporis Christi ex quibus augetur & consistit Carnis nostræ substantia.

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.

Witnesses

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