A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §43

Controv. IV: Whether God has a general or antecedent will to save all and each

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II. Is there in God a general will, or an antecedent will, to save all human beings and each one — and that not what is called the will of the sign, by which His word promiscuously marks the way of salvation for any, inviting any without distinction to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4), but God's will properly so called, the will of His good-pleasure: that eternal, serious, efficacious will — yet not absolute or immutable, but ordered and conditioned, under the conditions of faith and of perseverance that human beings are to perform?

Latin

II. An sit in Deo Voluntas generalis, seu antecedens, servandi omnes & singulos homines; eademque non quae dicitur voluntas signi, verbo suo quibusvis promiscuè viam salutis significans, quosvis sine discrimine invitans ad agnitionem veritatis, 1. Tim. II. 4. sed voluntas propriè dicta Dei, seu beneplaciti, aeterna illa, seria, efficax; Nec absoluta tamen aut immutabilis, sed ordinata & conditionata, sub conditionibus fidei, & perseverantiae ab hominibus praestandae?

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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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