A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §473

Annotatio III §.X (6) cont.: Admits sign-accidents that must enter the substances; practical enmity — oral God-eating (Cicero / Averroes)

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It also admits bread/wine species that must enter those substances (bread’s quantity not really other than the bread; wine’s motion in the cup unfit for bare accidents, yet seen in exhalable particles that shrink the wine-mass).

Practical philosophy too: it butts natural piety — oral God-eating. Cicero: who is mad enough to think what he eats is God? Averroes: no worse race than Christians, who devour with teeth the God they adore (Hottinger pp. 214ff).

Latin

Prætereà Species & Accidentia Signorum, panis & vini, admittendo tales, quæ tamen signorum horum substantias necessariò ingrediuntur, e.g. Panis quantitatem ab Extensione ejus definita, ipsôque, adeo pane, realiter haud diversam; Vini Motum in Calice, Accidentibus nudis i. e. omni substantialitate orbis, minimè competentem, visum verò in subtilioribus vini, calice comprehensi, particulis, exhalaturis cum tempore, vinique massam substantialem, evolutione suâ imminuturis. Practica verò Philosophiæ inimica imminet Transsubstantiatio, quando etiam pietatem, in Deum, naturalem, & naturalem humanitatem arietat. PIETATEM IN DEUM, afferendo, Deum oraliter manducari: Ecquemnam tam amentem esse putas, qui id, quô vescitur, Deum esse credat? quærit Cicero de Natura Deorum Lib. 3. Cui respondet Averrois judicium sententiaque de Christianismo: Omnes regiones peragravi, nec Christianâ gente deteriorem ullam reperi: Quia quem Deum adorant, hunc dentibus devorant. vid. Dionys. Carthus. in 4. Dist. 10. Art. 1. Confer B. Hotting. Eucharist. defens. pag. 214. & seqq.

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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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