A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §640

Annotatio V §.III close: Neoterici make Oral fundamental; Tertullian twist; Mayer on Spener — stop before §.IV

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§.III close: many Lutheran Neoterics (a Wittenberger among them) fight not only for the triple’s truth but for Oral’s necessity and fundamentality to Christian faith — branding deniers of Oral (even with spiritual stressed) as fundamental dissenters.

The Oral claim is unheard in Scripture and the primitive Church, and is twisted from one partly rhetorical Tertullian line (Bajer, Compend. p. 586); Mayer hints Spener is rightly called our age’s Tertullian (Bibl. Theol. Mor. p. 27). Stop before §.IV.

Latin

Quin Neoterici Lutheranorum plurimi, hosque inter Wittebergensis quidam, non pro veritate duntaxat Trigæ manducationis, sed & pro necessitate ejusdem ad salutem, certè pro Fundamentalitate Oralis Corporis Christi Manducationis, in relatione ad fidem Christianam, graviter depugnant, fundamentaliter à se pariter atque à fide Christiana dissidere, clamitando, quotquot Oralem Corporis Christi Manducationem, Supernaturali licèt Spiritualique enixissimè adstructa, inficiantur, utut in Scriptura & primitiva Ecclesia prorsus inauditam, & nonnisi ex unius Tertulliani dictione hac, partim obscura, partim æquivoca, partim denique Rhetorica: (Caro, Corpore & sanguine Christi vescitur, ut & anima de Deo saginetur. Libro de Resurrectione) Bajerianis fidiculis Compend. Theolog. Historic. p. 586. initio, extortum, de quo tamen Tertulliano quid sentiendum, quóve locô hujus Auctoritas habenda sit, vel novissimè Celeberrimi nominis honorisque Theologus Joh. Frid. Mayerus, haud obscurè subinnuit, quando piæ memoriæ Philipp. Jacob. Spenerum, Lutheranæ Ecclesiæ parti maximæ mirè exosum, nostræ ætatis Tertullianum jure dicendum arbitratur, Bibliothec. Scriptor. Theologiæ Moralis, pag. 27.

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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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