A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §500

Annotatio IV §.IV: First argument — OT spiritual food and drink; the Rock was Christ

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First argument: OT believers already shared Christ’s communion — the same spiritual food and drink (1 Cor. 10:1–4); the Rock was Christ.

We NT Christians drink His blood spiritually and share the same spiritual food — Christ and His body — with the Fathers; signs differ, significata are the same (Augustine; Acts 15:11).

Latin

Primum desumtum à Communione & participatione Christi, eòque corporis & sanguinis Christi (quibus sine Christus ne Christus quidem est) Veteris Testamenti Christianis impertita, de quibus Apostolus versu 1. Non vult nos ignorare, omnes eandem escam spiritualem edisse, omnes item eundem potum spiritualem bibisse, puta non inter se tantum omnes, sed & nobiscum; Nam immediatè sequitur: Bibebant enim ex sequenti spirituali Petra; Petra verò erat Christus; Sed de hoc solo & nosmet Christiani N. T., sanguinem ejus spiritualiter bibimus, sicuti & escam spiritualem, Mannam de cœlo descendentem, i. e. Christum ejusque corpus, nec quicquam aliud, itidem cum Patribus V. Test. participamus, Sacramentis Veterum, quoad Signa quidem, à nostris, diversis, quoad Significata verò iisdem existentibus, dicente Augustino Tract. 26. super Johannem, juxta istud Petrinum: Quin verò, per Gratiam Domini nostri Jesu Christi, credimus nos Salvatum iri, kath' hon tropon kakeinoi. Act. 15, 11.

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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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