A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §495

Annotatio IV §.III (2): Spiritual effects follow only spiritual presence — not corporal or oral

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(2) The presence and participation recommended are those which spiritual union with Christ, eternal life, and the last-day raising infallibly follow (John 6:53–56).

Those heavenly effects cling only to spiritual presence and participation — not corporal or oral; even on the Lutheran view the unworthy’s oral eating is spiritually empty.

Latin

(2) Quia ista duntaxat cùm præsentia, tùm participatio carnis & sanguinis Christi, commendantur, quas certò & infallibiliter spiritualis cum Christo Unio & Communio ipsaque vita æterna & ad hanc à Christo exsuscitatio è mortuis, insequuntur: Nam sic pergit Salvator vers. 53. 54. 55. 56. Amen Amen dico vobis, nisi ederitis carnem Filii hominis & biberitis ejus Sanguinem, non habebitis vitam in vobis. Qui edit carnem meam & bibit meum sanguinem, habet vitam æternam, & ego suscitabo ipsum ultimo illo die. Caro enim mea verè est cibus & sanguis meus verè est potus, qui edit meam carnem & bibit meum sanguinem, in me manet & ego in eo. At effectus hi Spirituales, Supernaturales & Cælestes, non nisi Spirituali Christi Præsentiæ & Participationi, indivisim ac necessariò adhærent, non Corporali aut Orali, uti in confesso est, & ex indignorum manducatione sacramentali quidem, etiam orali, ex Lutheranorum hypothesi, at spiritualis vacua, liquidò constat.

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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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