Fathers

A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §510

Annotatio IV §.V close: On to later ages via early Fathers; both sides cite two things, spiritual mode only — stop before §.VI

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Doctrine now traced from the origin through the whole first Christian age — we may step on to later ages with early Fathers to confirm it.

Protestant collectors (Oecolampadius, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Chamier, Cosin, Baier) already demolished Pontifical novelties; we still take two or three witnesses per purer age from them.

Both sides cite nearly the same from the first five ages: presence of two things (celestial & terrestrial / Signified & Sign) with only the spiritual mode of the Signified conceded. Stop before §.VI (second century: Ignatius, Justin, Irenaeus).

Latin

Ut hôc ipsô, post deductam ab origine, per totius primi Seculi Christiani decursum, veram de S. Cœna Doctrinam, nunc promptô pede ad succedentia Secula liceat nobis pertendere, primorum Patrum testimoniis eandem adstructuris & confirmaturis. Equidem nos hâc operâ levatos per quorundam Protestantium Doctorum egregiam industriam, Pontificias Novitates, circa S. Cœnam demolientium, Joh. Oecolampadii, Philippi Melanchtonis, Martini Chemnitii, Danielis Chamieri, & novissimè Johannis Cosini nec non Joh. Guil. Bajeri, probè novimus; ne tamen Historica hæc Opella nostra hiulca evadat, haud gravabimur ex his ipsis Autoribus, singulorum seculorum saltem puriorum testes pro veritate, vel binos, vel ad summum tres, advocare, in quorum ore & hæc veritas immota perstet, si in antecessum hoc unicum monuerimus, nominatos Veterum Testimoniorum collectores, etsi diversæ Protestantium Sectæ addictos, eadem tamen propemodum ex quinque præsertim Seculis prioribus, hac proculdubio de causa adduxisse, vel non potuisse non adducere, quòd in iis res ipsa solummodò, i. e. duarum rerum, cœlestis & terrestris, Signati & Signi, in legitimo S. Cœnæ usu, præsentia & participatio, citra vel ullum præsentiæ & participationis rei alterius, Signati scil. modum, vel cum hujus solo, duntaxat spirituali modo, ab utraque Protestantium parte concesso, inculcare deprehenduntur.

About this text

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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