A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §509

Annotatio IV §.V: Spirit witnesses — Spirit is truth; Spirit quickens; words are Spirit and life

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He did it so that the Spirit should bear witness that the Spirit is the truth (1 John 5:6 with John 6:63).

The Spirit is Truth; the Spirit quickens; Christ’s words on participating His Body and Blood are Spirit and life.

Latin

Tamen id ipsum præstitit hunc in modum, ut to pneuma fuerit to martyroun hoti to pneuma estin hē alētheia, Joh. 5. v. 6. coll. cum Joh. cap. 6. v. 63. h. e. ut Spiritus testatus fuerit, Spiritum esse Veritatem, Spiritum item vivificare, verbaque Christi de participatione Corporis & Sanguinis sui, esse Spiritum & vitam.

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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.

Witnesses

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