A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §52

Foresight of ancestors' contempt and unevangelized peoples cannot clear the scheme of seeming cruelty

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Add this: God is not cleared of the appearance of injustice or cruelty if, because the greater ones spurned the faith, He cheats their whole posterity of the means necessary for faith and salvation, and yet is said seriously to will the salvation of all of them.

And how stands it with the Americans, the innumerable island peoples, the southerners formerly out of reach — did their greater ones spurn the faith, or was the Gospel never preached to them at all?

Add what we have already said the Lutherans concede on this argument, in the Protheoria, pages 350 and 351.

Latin

Accedit, non liberari Deum à specie iniquitatis, vel sævitiæ, qui ob spretam fidem à Majoribus, fraudet totam Posteritatem mediis necessariis ad fidem, & salutem, & tamen horum omnium seriò velle salutem, affirmaretur. Et quî in Americanis, Insulanis innumeris, Australibus antè inaccessis, Majores eorum fidem sprevere, aut Euangelium illis nunquam prædicatum? Adde quæ a Lutheranis concessa diximus, in hoc argumento, Protheoriâ pag. 350. 351.

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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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