A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §550

Annotatio IV §.XII: Mejerus — Damascene author of new scholastic method; simple doctrine mutated

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Guilty also of many later ‘scholastic’ terms rashly thrust into sacred theology — Mejerus names Damascene author of a new scientific method of treating Christian doctrine.

Thorny useless questions; new opinions as dogmas; rare appeal to Scripture; philosopher-formulas over sound words — and followers gradually turned the ancients’ simple doctrine into scholastic disputations.

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aliarum quoque plurimarum innovationum & Terminorum, scholasticorum deinceps dictorum, temerè satis sanctæ Religioni & Theologiæ Christianæ intrusorum reus, quin Autor postulatus à sæpius laudato Mejero, paragraphum tertium Sectionis suæ octavæ ita exorso: Capita prætereà hôc seculo nova ratio tractandi doctrinam religionis Christianæ, auctore Damasceno, qui eam, ad modum scientiæ, primus tradere instituit. Hic, omissis quibusdam momentosis articulis, spinosas & inutiles quæstiones in Theologiam intulit, novas doctorum opiniones, ut religionis Christianæ dogmata proposuit, rarius ad Scripturam provocavit; formam sanorum verborum neglexit, formulis philosophorum potiùs, quam theologorum antiquorum & scripturæ utens. Et quia plerique postsecuti Doctores istam tractandi rationem sunt amplexi, sensim simplex veterum de religione Christianâ doctrinæ ratio, mutata est in scholasticas disputationes. p. 174. & 175.

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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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