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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §39

Controversies after Luther: Providence — three Lutheran grounds that the Reformed make God author of sin

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CONTROVERSIES BORN AFTER LUTHER. On God's Providence, Predestination, and the heads annexed to them.

III. First: whether the Reformed make God the author of Sin — namely (1) from the will of εὐδοκία, that is of permissive good-pleasure, which Luther asserted so clearly that his own candid sons do not deny it; (2) from a hypothetical necessity, or necessity of futurition and of the event, flowing from infallible foreknowledge (πρόγνωσις), and also from that necessity of immutability which Luther pressed hardest, drawn from God's immutable and unsearchable good-pleasure, counsel, will, and disposition — even in the hardening of Pharaoh, the betrayal of Judas, and the like; (3) from the mode of that same Providence, least idle or ineffective (they call it Concurrence) around actions infected by sin, as actions, which again Luther himself treats as necessary, though not by a necessity of compulsion — On the Bondage of the Will, pages 67–68, and so on.

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CONTROVERSIAE POST LUTHERUM NATAE. De Providentia Dei, Praedestinatione, & Annexis Capitibus. III. I. De Deo auctore scilicet Peccati a Reformatis constituto, nempe 1. Ex voluntate εὐδοκίας seu beneplaciti permissivi, a Luthero tam luculenter asserti, non negantibus Filiis ingenuis; 2. Ex necessitate hypothetica seu futuritionis & eventûs, fluente ex infallibili προγνώσει, tùm & necessitate immutabilitatis quam ursit acerrimè Lutherus, ex immutabili ac imperescrutabili Dei beneplacito, consilio, voluntate, dispositione; etiam in Induratione Pharaonis, Proditione Judae, &c. 3. Ex modo Providentiae ejusdem, minimè otiosae aut inefficacis, (Concursum vocant) circa actiones peccato infectas, ut actiones sunt, necessarias rursum ipsi Luthero, quamvis non necessitate coactionis, Libro de Servo Arbitr. p. 67. 68. &c.

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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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