A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §517

Annotatio IV §.VII open: Third century — Tertullian first professor of Eucharistic truth

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§.VII opens the THIRD century with Tertullian as first professor of Eucharistic truth — in flower at the age’s start.

In one sentence he both confesses the impropriety of Christ’s words ‘This is my body’ and attests the true presence of Christ’s true body in the supper.

Latin

§. VII. SECULI TERTII Professor Veritatis Eucharisticæ primus TERTULLIANUS meritô suô inducitur, quippe ipso Seculi initio in flore constitutus, unâque ac eâdem sententiâ tàm Verborum Eucharisticorum Christi: Hoc est corpus meum, improprietatem disertissimè confessus, quam veram nihilominus veri corporis Christi in cœna præsentiam testatus.

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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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