A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §626

Annotatio V §.I: broader vs stricter (mastication); Impropria mental — natural vs supernatural

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Proper eating is broader (any foodstuff) or stricter (solid food needing mastication — Calepinus: ‘eaten’ often means chewed).

IMPROPER eating is mental: knowing and ruminating what feeds the mind — either Mental Natural, or Mental Supernatural when the Spirit-illuminated mind knows regeneration-things.

Latin

Estque vel latiùs dicta circa quodcunque esculentum propriè dictum; vel strictiùs, circa esculentum, in specie solidum, versata, quæ ex ratione soliditatis esculenti, novam specialemque actionem adsciscit, Masticationem vocatam, quâ à deglutitione distinguitur, Manducationi solidioris esculenti adeo essentialem, sive dentibus, sive gingivâ peragatur, ut etiam Manducatio, pro Masticatione, ceu pro analogo famosiori, ponatur, cibusque manducatus, non tàm comestum, quàm mansum & dentibus comminutum masticatumque cibum significet, teste Calepino. IMPROPRIA Manducatio est actio mentalis, consistens in receptione & usurpatione ejus, quô mens alitur atque perficitur, i. e. in Cognitione rerum, harumque cognitarum ruminatione, à mente instituta. Estque vel purè Mentalis, à mente, quoad naturam suam considerata, per Cognitionem rerum, naturâ noscibilium, peracta, ob id Mentalis Naturalis dicenda; vel præterea Spiritualis, à Mente per Sp. S. illuminata ac regenerata, circa res, solâ virtute Illuminationis & Regenerationis, cognoscibiles, cognoscendo & usurpando occupata, eóque Mentalis Supernaturalis nuncupanda.

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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