What remains against the Reformed rests on a twisted reading: of himself man can fall from faith entirely
Whatever quarrel with the Reformed is left turns chiefly on a wrenching of their meaning.
Our side, as already shown against the Remonstrants, concedes this:
1. Take a person by himself and in his own strength — that is, in his frailty — and he can all too easily leave the faith, yes, leave it wholly.
Left to himself he is clay pottery, a soft infant, a defenseless lamb, nothing but flesh and blood, a bruised reed, loose sand, always apt to slide unless God holds him — vanity itself, sheer nothing.
Latin
QUOD reliquum est controversiae cum Reformatis, fere in detorta horum sententia consistit. Fatentur enim nostri, ut contra Remonstr. visum, 1. Hominem ex se, & in suis viribus, idest, infirmitatibus consideratum, nimis quam posse deficere a fide, & totaliter quidem. Utpote qui ex se vas fictile, tenellus infans, ovicula imbellis, nonnisi caro & sanguis, fragilis arundo, mobilis arena, semper labilis sine Deo, quin ipsa vanitas ac merum nihil.
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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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