A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §591

Annotatio IV §.XIX: Taborites closer — tropical Institution; spiritual not natural presence; faith’s mouth

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Hus’s followers — Bohemian Brethren / Taborites — came nearer Supper truth.

They recognize tropical Institution speech and Christ’s presence in the Supper — Spiritual only, not natural/corporal — eating by faith’s mouth, for the faithful not the unbelieving (Lydius’s collected confessions, 1616).

Latin

tamen Sectatores Hussi à regione, in qua degebant, Bohemi Fratres, ab oppido quodam, seu Castello, nomine Tabor, Taboritæ nuncupati, veritati de S. Cœna propiores accessere, agnitâ tùm tropicâ in verbis Institutionis locutione, tùm præsentia corporis Christi in Cena, sed Spirituali duntaxat, non Naturali corporalique; manducatione item ore fidei peragendâ, hincque fidelibus peculiari, nec infidelibus communi. Hæc manifesta evadunt omnia ex Confessionibus eorum variis, Seculis XIV. & XV. in publicum editis & à Balthasare Lydro Pastore Dordraceno Anno 1616. unô Volumine, duabus constante partibus, compræhensis.

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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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