A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §612

Annotatio IV §.XXIII open: Reformed constant — same emptied/exalted body as to first communicants; Wren — stop mid-XXIII

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§.XXIII: Reformed constant mind — the true substantial body once emptied on earth, now exalted in heaven, is present to modern communicants in the same quality/mode as to the first communicants, until the judgment return.

Crucified-as-crucified present SPIRITUALLY is as obvious to them as glorified-body oral eating is to Lutherans. Wren vs Racovian: ‘really’ and ‘spiritually’ do not fight — the more spiritual, the more a thing is. Stop mid-XXIII (Wren’s second reply remains).

Latin

§. XXIII. Itaque Reformatorum constans animi sententia est, verum & substantiale corpus Christi, quod olim in terris fuit exinanitum, nunc verò in cœlis exaltatum, sub ea qualitate, eóque modô, Communicantibus modernis semper & usquedum Christus rediturus est ad judicandum vivos & mortuos, in Cœna S. adesse, sub qua qualitate quóve modô primis Communicantibus, in ipso Sacro Cœnæ usu, præsens fuit: Neque enim minùs Reformatorum Fidei obvium est, corpus Christi crucifixum, quatenus crucifixum est, (SPIRITUALITER scil.) in Cœna præsens esse, quàm Lutheranæ Fidei adhuc persuasum manet, glorificatum corpus Christi, eóque Spirituale, quatenus tale, ore tamen corporis, manducari. Disputanti autem atque arguenti: vel, re ipsa præsens esse, & Spiritualiter adesse, pugnare inter se; vel, spiritualem adessendi modum, in corpus non competere, non possumus non recitare, quæ admodùm acutè Catechesi Racoviensi, simili pactô inferenti, Mattheus Wren Anglus respondet… AD PRIUS quidem: Ain verò Tu, inquit, re ipsa, atque spiritualiter, pugnare? tam infensa est spiritualis conditio, ut Realem devoret?… Etenim, quò magis spirituale quid est, eò magis esse id, dignosci potest…

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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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