A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §515

Annotatio IV §.VI cont.: Irenaeus (3–4) — two things of the Eucharist; celestial = supernatural presence mode

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(3) The two things belong to the Eucharist, not to the bread alone — lest Christ’s body be joined to bread even outside lawful use. (4) Earthly = bread from earth; heavenly is not Christ’s body naturally/corporally present (that body is an earthly thing from Mary’s mass, like us except sin).

It is called heavenly for the solely supernatural presence-mode in the Eucharist — genuine food of faithful souls from the Spirit, someday serving even their bodies toward blessed resurrection.

Latin

(3) Eucharistiam S., non verò panem, ex duabus rebus censere constare, ne quis cum pane, etiam extra usum Eucharistiæ legitimum, corpus Christi conjungi arbitretur. (4) Duarum rerum alteram, terrenam vocitare, scil. panem è terra natum, alteram verò cælestem, eòque non corpus Christi naturaliter seu corporaliter præsens, quod ipsum corpus res cælestis, non nisi per Hæresin Manichaicam, juxta Spiritûs S. verò mentem, res omnino terrena haberi debet, ex Massa Mariæ sanguinea formata, in utero ejusdem concepta, fota, nutrita, definitô tempore, ex utero materno in mundi lucem egressa, nobis & nostris Infantibus per omnia, etiam ratione præsentiæ localis, unico exceptô peccatô, simillima, Sed verò ob cœlestem unicè ac supernaturalem in Eucharistia præsentiæ modum, cælestis dicta, animarum nostrarum fidelium, eatenus ex cœlo, quin ex Spiritu S. natarum, genuinum pabulum, etiam in corporibus fidelium, saluberrimum usum olim habiturum, i. e. horum beatam ad vitam æternam, procuraturum resurrectionem.

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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