A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §614

Annotatio IV §.XXIII: Psychic argument — natural body/blood → only natural participation; spiritual-only = not really

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They concede that what is spiritual most of all is in the thing itself — yet the sacrament’s supposit is a material natural thing: Christ’s body broken and blood poured on the cross.

So they urge: a natural thing has no true participation except in some natural mode; if Christ’s body is received only spiritually, it is not received truly / in the thing itself.

Latin

Qui, licèt inficias ire nequeant, vel maximè re esse id, quod Spiritualiter est, Quia tamen Suppositum ipsum in sacramento, Res Materialis atque Naturalis est, (corpus putà Christi, in cruce fractum, & sanguis Christi, in cruce fusus;) contendunt ergò, Rei Naturalis nullam veram participationem esse, nisi Naturali aliquo modo; Spiritualiter igitur si solùm à nobis participetur corpus Christi, Verè, atque reipsà non participari.

About this text

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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