A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §479

Annotatio III §.XI (8) cont.: Wren — bread-substance flees at Hoc est corpus meum, leaving accidents behind

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Wren (Increpatio Bar Jesu / Racovian Catechism refutation p. 342), on those who alone know these ‘depths’: bread-substance did not pass into body-substance.

Terrified at ‘This is my body,’ it vanished so fast it dared not even pack its accidents and drag the poor species along — still less did divine-body substance pass into that vanished bread-substance.

Latin

Scilicet, si istos audiamus, quibus solis datum est hæc βάθη callere (sunt verba Matthæi Wreni in Increpatione Bar Jesu, seu Refutatione Catechismi Racoviensis p. m. 342.) Substantia Panis neutiquam transiit in Substantiam corporis, sed exterrit a (ut par est,) ad Divina illa vocabula, Hoc est corpus meum, tam subito, prorsusque evanuit, ut nè durare quidem tantisper ausa fuerit, dum & Accidentia sua convasare, Speciesque misellas secum auferre posset. Quanto minus opinandum est, Substantiam Divini Corporis transiisse in eam, quæ evanuit, Panis Substantiam?

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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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