A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §468

Annotatio III §.X (4) close: Thyestean charges hit Gnostics only; ancients lack Adoration/Elevations/Circumgestations; stop before (5)

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Thyestean banquet charges stuck to Gnostics alone (maliciously counted as Christians); true Christians never even mentioned the Eucharist there, much less explained or defended this mystery — mere calumny, exploded.

And the ancients’ constant lack of later Transsubstantiation-rites (Adoration, Elevation, Circumgestation) amply shows they utterly ignored Transsubstantiation.

Stop before (5) Natura Sacramentorum.

Latin

Thyesteas Coenas, quarum quandoque Christiani arguebantur, ad Gnosticos solos (non nisi per apertissimam malitiam Christianis annumeratos) pertinuisse, à veris autem Christianis, citra omnem Eucharistiæ S. mentionem injectam, nedum Mysterii hujus expositionem defensionemque susceptam vel minimam, pro mera calumnia habitas explosasque fuisse, notius est, quàm ut hoc loco prolixius dici debeat. Quin Praxios Rituumque, Transsubstantiationi indissolubiliter annexorum (quales sunt Sacramenti Adoratio, Elevatio, Circumgestatio) recentioribus seculis adinventæ, apud veteres Christianos constans atque perpetuus defectus, de Transsubstantiatione ab his penitus ignorata prolixè satis testari censendus est.

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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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