A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §664

Annotatio V §.IX: Reformed teach spiritual presence/sacramental; external≠internal communion — stop before §.X

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The Author (§.XVII) again slides from Oral to a fabricated fight over presence and true real sacramental eating as his only stronghold — forgetting the Reformed constantly teach both as Spiritual.

Spiritual presence/eating alone is the fountain of the Creed’s Communion of Saints (vs the Catholic Church article). External church communion holds saints and hypocrites together; internal Saints’ communion they do not share alike. Stop before §.X.

Latin

Autor rursus initio paragraphi XVII. à Manducatione Orali, inter nos disputabili, ad commentitiam de præsentia corporis Christi in Cœna ejusque Sacramentali verâque & reali Manducatione, disputationem relabitur, hîc præsidium suum unicum quæsiturus; & quoniam corporis Christi præsentia in Cœna, hujusque sacramentalis vera ac realis Manducatio, Communioni Sanctorum analoga est, se jam tum omne id confecisse sibi persuadet, quod intenderat, haud memor, tùm Præsentiam corporis Christi, in Cœna, tùm Manducationem Sacramentalem veram realémque, sed utramque Spiritualem, à Reformatis constantissimè doceri: quæ interim sola, non verò Oralis, Communionis Sanctorum in Symbolo Apostolico celebratæ, Articulóque de Ecclesia Catholica contradistinctæ, fons audit & scaturigo. Hinc præter rem h. l. inter Communionem Externam, & Internam, discriminat Auctor; quando prior Sanctorum non est, quatenus sancti sunt, sed ad Ecclesiam Catholicam pertinet, in qua sancti, & immundi hypocritæ, juxta continentur, non autem juxta Sanctorum Communione strictè sic dictâ & interna fruuntur.

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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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