A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §645

Annotatio V §.IV THIRD genus (1): anthropophagy, blood-drinking, body/blood split, contumely

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THIRD genus (1): if Supper-eating is corporal-oral of Christ’s body, Christ could hardly have instituted it — it imports anthropophagy and blood-drinking (Lev. 7; 17), and a careless split of Body from Blood with bread/wine.

It also contumeliously locks the glorious Christ under bread and wine, reopens a passion-scene by thrusting Body and blood into human mouths, and has the holy Flesh enter even the impure mouths of the impious (Zwinger, Thesis 25).

Latin

TERTIUM Argumentorum GENUS ex ipsius Manducationis, in S. Cœna instituendæ, Natura fluit, quæ si Corporalis Oralisque corporis Christi statuatur, (1) deprehenditur hujusmodi, ut à Christo institui haud potuerit, partim quòd anthropophagían inducit & haimatoposían, Deo Hominique abominabilem, Levit. 7, 26. & cap. 17, 14. partim quòd Diaspasin inter Corpus & Sanguinem Christi, cui obnoxia ampliùs esse nequeunt, incautè admittit, cum pane corpus Christi absque sanguine, cum vino verò sanguinem absque corpore, oraliter accipi subinnuens; partim denique, quòd Christi tàm Corpori, quam sanguini, quin ipsi toti, contumeliosè accidit: Enimverò contumeliosum, (a) Christum gloriosum redigere in & sub elementa panis & Vini, ceu sub claustrum. (b) Christum semel crucifixum, passum & mortuum, in novam aliquam passionis scenam reducere, Corpusque ejus & sanguinem ori humano intrudere manducanda Oraliter bibendáque. (c) Dicere Carnem Christi sacrosanctam sanguinemque ejus, non solùm fidelium piorumque, sed & impiorum ac infidelium impura ora subintrare, adeóque profanum quemque Nebulonem, qui Diabolum quotidie in corde & ore gerit, verè tamen Christi quoque Corpus & sanguinem usurpare. Vide Zwingerum, Declarat. sent. Orthod. de Cœna Thesi 25.

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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