A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §627

Annotatio V §.I: merely spiritual vs sacramental; Sacred Supper = corporal + spiritual eating

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Improper spiritual eating is either merely spiritual (no corporal union) or Sacramental (joined to a God-enjoined corporal eating).

The Sacred Supper, as Christ instituted it, is of this last kind: corporal + spiritual eating for double food — Lord’s Body (heavenly) and consecrated bread (earthly). Spiritual can stand without sacramental, and (by the unworthy) sacramental without spiritual.

Latin

Hæc vel merè spiritualis, citra unionem cum Corporali quacunque peracta; vel insimul Sacramentalis, unitam habens Manducationem quandam à DEO injunctam Corporalem. Postremi generis est Manducatio in Cœna Sacra, utpote si legitima & talis qualis à Christo instituta, ex duplici manducatione composita ea est, Corporali nempe, & Spirituali, idque ob duplicem in S. Cœna oblatum recipiendumque cibum, spiritualem alterum seu cœlestem, Corpus nempe Domini, alterum corporalem seu terrestrem, panem, quanquam ob consecrationem extrinsecè seu relativè sacrum, i. e. à communi usu separatum. Spiritualis, quia per se & suam naturam, absque Sacramentali esse potest, uti per accidens & ob Impietatem Communicantis, Sacramentalis absque Spirituali; evenit hinc, ut Spiritualis & Sacramentalis Manducatio habeant se per modum excedentium & excessorum terminorum.

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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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