A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §679

Annotatio V §.XII (2): Pufendorf — Oral not among fundamentals; controversy is mode (§.63)

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(2) Pufendorf: inserting Oral into a fundamentals system does not prove he packed only fundamentals, or that he judged Reformed Supper “errors” as harshly as our Disputant wants.

Read §.2 and especially §.63: he does not number Oral eating as such among faith’s foundations. If both sides confess true eating and drinking of body and blood, the fight left is about the MODE of eating/drinking and of presence (p.229).

Latin

(2.) PUFENDORFII, quòd hic Illustris Autor, Systemati suo articulorum Fundamentalium, etiam Articulum de Orali Manducatione, inseruerit: Quasi verò Pufendorfius merorum Fundamentalium Systema complexus sit, nullis admixtis Præterfundamentalibus; vel non mitius, de Reformatorum sibi visis in S. Cœna erroribus, senserit, quàm Disputator noster vellet. Legatur ipse §. 2. & sigillatim §. 63. de Cœna, & facilè apparebit, Manducationem corporis Christi Oralem, quà talem, inter fidei Christianæ fundamenta haudquaquam numerasse eum: Ita enim finit dictum suum: Ceterum si utraque pars Protestantiæ bonâ fide profiteatur, in S. Cœna Corpus & Sanguinem Christi re verá ac propriè edi ac bibi, deque partis ab ipso beneficiis participari, CONTROVERSIA REMANET CIRCA MODUM COMESTIONIS ET BIBITIONIS, IPSIUSQUE PRÆSENTIÆ CORPORIS ET SANGUINIS CHRISTI; quem utique captum humanæ rationis transcendere agnoscunt, eoque ratiociniis res geritur, ubi rationi locus non est. pag. 229.

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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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