A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §522

Annotatio IV §.VII close: Cyprian — invade the Lord’s body only spiritually; stop before §.VIII

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Cyprian, later in the century, most expressly teaches true spiritual presence and participation — in rhetorical style (On the Lapsed) against the unprepared who still reek of idol foods yet invade the Lord’s Body.

They can invade Christ’s body and do violence to His blood only in a Spiritual mode — by taking bread and wine, which the impious handle only by sacrilege.

Stop before §.VIII (fourth century: Nicene Fathers).

Latin

Tertius denique & jam altius seculum hoc ingressus, divus CYPRIANUS, veram illam ac spiritualem corporis Christi in Eucharistia præsentiam atque participationem, disertissimè omnium, rhetoricô interim stylô (hôc potissimum tempore à Patribus excoli cœptô, facilè autem in abusum trahendo, in sermone de Lapsis populari, Rhetoricæ per se suamque naturam, indulgere solito) inter alia hunc in modum edisserit, dum nempe in eos invehitur, qui ab negatâ semel fide christiana, paulò post leniori pænitentiâ tacti, sicque minus præparati, ad S. cœnam accedunt: Mortiferos, ait, idolorum cibos adhuc penè ructantes, exhalantibus etiamnum scelus suum faucibus & contagia funesta redolentibus, Domini Corpus invadunt. Et iterum. Spretis his omnibus atque contemtis, vis infertur Corpori Christi & sanguini ejus; plus modò in Dominum manibus atque ore delinquunt, quàm cùm Dominum negaverunt. Hinc namque corpus Christi invadere, & huic, nec non Sanguini ejus, vim inferre aliter, quàm Spirituali modô, haud poterant, sumentes nempe Panem & Vinum, seu Sacramentum Domini, ab impiis non nisi per Sacrilegium, usurpandum & attrectandum.

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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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