A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §485

Annotatio IV §.I cont.: Cosinus opens papal Transsubstantiation history with infallible Institution words

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Cosinus (Most Reverend) rightly opens his History of papal Transsubstantiation with the Institution words: This is my body given for you; This is my blood poured out for you — the whole Church confesses them infallible and most true.

Anyone who twists them into a fiction and bare figure, denying Christ’s truthfulness, we neither can nor ought to tolerate or excuse in our churches.

Latin

Unde rectissimè Reverendissimus Cosinus Historiam suam Transsubstantiationis papalis, his verbis auspicatur: Quæ à Christo Domino, in solenni hujus augustissimi sacramenti Institutione, ad perpetuam sui memoriationem, prolata sunt verba, nempe, Hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis traditur, Hic est sanguis meus qui pro vobis effunditur, omnino infallibilia atque verissima esse, universa per orbem terrarum sancta confitetur Ecclesia. Si quis autem contrarium affirmaverit, aut veracitatem Christi in dubium vocare ausus fuerit, dictisve ejus fidem derogaverit, nec iis assensum suum præbuerit, nisi per figmentum & nudam figuram expositis & detortis, illum in Ecclesiis nostris nec tolerare, nec excusare vel possumus, vel debemus.

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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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