A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §464

Annotatio III §.X (3)(a) cont.: Highest idolatry species — even without their Transsubstantiation hypothesis; God’s definition, not ours

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That is the highest species of idolatry — which even Pontificians never deny if Transsubstantiation is not supposed, and must not deny without that hypothesis.

They cannot make their hypothesis certain by Revelation or Reason; and idolatry turns on God’s definition, not on whether a human opinion is true or false — whenever what is not the highest God is estimated, saluted, or given highest cult as if it were.

Latin

Hôcque ipso summa Idololatriæ species incurritur, ne Pontificiis quidem ipsis, sub hypothesi haud facta Transsubstantiationis, negata unquam, sed nec neganda citra hanc hypothesin, tùm quod hypotheseos suæ nullo vel Revelationis vel Rationis argumento, certiores fieri possint, multis è contrario utriusque argumentis, saltem dubii de ista reddantur, si non omnino ab eadem abducantur; tùm, quod Idololatriæ natura ac admissio, neutiquam ab hypothesi opinioneque humana, sive vera ista sit, sive falsa, sed verò à determinatione seu definitione Dei, dependeat, quâ toties idololatriam propriè sic dictam committi novimus, quoties id, quod summe Deus non est, sive ex errore, sive citra errorem, vel æstimatur, vel salutatur talis, nedum religioso summôque cultu afficitur.

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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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