A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §54

Or is reprobation only by foresight of final unbelief — Lutherans deny the former, affirm the latter

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Or is there no reprobation at all except according to foresight of final impenitence and unbelief, treated as the one cause of reprobation inside the decree — while those so foreseen have all been granted means enough for faith and repentance, and for salvation too?

The Lutherans deny the first account and affirm this second one. The Reformed stand against that.

Latin

An verò Reprobatio nulla detur, nisi secundùm praescientiam finalis impaenitentiae, & incredulitatis, & hujus tanquam causae unicae Reprobationis consideratae in Decreto; dùm fuerint omnibus ità praescitis sufficientia ad fidem & resipiscentiam, tum & ad salutem concessa media? Prius negant, post. affirm. Luth. Contra Reform.

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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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