A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §678

Annotatio V §.XII (1): Calixtus Senior — authority stands; Jud. Controv. n.76 union

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(1) Calixtus Senior: the Author only tries to shrink his authority; among moderate antiquity-minded readers it still stands — even if not infallible, and not mainly because he beckons Papists and Reformed into one church society without Dort anathemas on Lutheran dogmas.

Add also Calixtus’s point (Jud. Controv. n.76): Protestant split over Oral does not block union — Reformed who eat spiritually also eat orally if Oral truth hangs on the institution’s will, not the eaters’ opinion.

Latin

(1.) CALIXTI Senioris, cujus Viri Autoritatem dumtaxat imminuere satagit, apud omnes interim bonos moderatosque, antiquitatis item Ecclesiasticæ studiosos, perduraturam, etiamsi non infallibilis, nec à nobis, istô potissimum nomine, habenda sit, quòd Pontificios non minus, salvô licet Tridentino Concilio, Protestantica multa anathematizante, quàm Reformatos, salva horum Synodo Dordracenâ, dogmata quædam Lutherana obliquè quidem & per latus Arminianorum improbante, nullo verò anathemate feriente, in unius Ecclesiæ Christianæ Societatem advocat. Testimonio intereà hujus Viri contra Fundamentalitatem Oralis Manducationis inconcusso persistenti superaddendum & illud est, quô idem dissidium de ea Protestanticum, Unioni Protestantium Ecclesiasticæ nihil quicquam officere posse, inde probat, quòd Spiritualiter Corpus Christi manducantes Reformati, non minus Oraliter id manducent, quàm ipsi Lutherani, cùm Oralis Manducationis veritas, non à Manducantium Opinione, sed à Voluntate Institutionis Cœnæ, dependeat. Jud. de Controver. n. 76.

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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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