A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §553

Annotatio IV §.XIII open: Ninth century — reclaimers against both Transubstantiations; Charlemagne FIGURE

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§.XIII: though Nicaean sentences on image-transmutation and bread-into-Body held first place until the Reformation, the NINTH age still found reclaimers against both Transubstantiations.

Around its entrance CHARLES THE GREAT restrained image-veneration (Frankfurt 794) and, to Alcuin, said Christ gave bread and cup in the FIGURE of His body and blood — a great Sacrament for our profit.

Latin

§. XIII. Etsi verò ab hoc, ad Reformationis usque tempora perversissima, Nicænorum tam de incorruptibilis Dei in Imaginem hominis corruptibilis, quàm de panis Eucharistici in Corporis Christi Substantiam Transmutatione agraphô quin antigraphô, Sententia primas tenuerit, longe lateque disseminanda; inventi tamen etiam SECULO NONO, hinc inde sunt, qui utrique Transsubstantiationi pro virili reclamarent. Enimverò circa ipsum Seculi Noni ingressum, divus Imperator CAROLUS, jure suô MAGNUS appellatus, sicuti imaginum venerationem usumque sacrum, per Francofurtense Concilium, intra certos saltem limites, coërcuit Anno 794.; ita de Eucharistia quoque sanorum Christi verborum formam, in Epistola sua ad Alcuinum, luculenter satis hisce expressit: Cœnando, inquit, cum Discipulis Christus, panem fregit & calicem pariter dedit iis in FIGURAM corporis & sanguinis sui, nobisque profuturum magnum exhibuit Sacramentum.

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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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