A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §528

Annotatio IV §.VIII close: Ambrose — after consecration it is Christ’s body; old creature made new — stop before §.IX

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How can what is bread be Christ’s body by consecration? By the Lord’s words the sacrament is made — Christ’s speech is operative.

If bread and wine begin to be what they were not and are changed into another, then it was not Christ’s body before consecration, but after it is. He spoke and it was done: you were an old creature; after consecration you begin to be a new one.

Stop before §.IX (fifth century: Chrysostom and Augustine).

Latin

Hoc igitur adstruemus, quomodo qui panis est, potest esse corpus Christi consecratione. Consecratio autem fit verbis Domini, ut venerabile Sacramentum conficiatur. Vides quàm operatorius sit sermo Christi. Si ergo tanta vis est in sermone Domini, ut inciperent esse, (panis & vinum) quæ non erant, & in aliud commutentur, Ergo, ut Tibi respondeam, non erat corpus Christi ante consecrationem, sed post consecrationem jam est corpus Christi. Ipse dixit & factum est; TU IPSE ERAS, SED ERAS VETUS CREATURA; POSTQUAM CONSECRATUS ES, NOVA CREATURA ESSE CŒPISTI.

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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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