A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §682

Annotatio V §.XII (4) replies: anger makes testimony stronger; Bucer; Chytraeus Marburg

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Replies: (1) testimony from an angry Luther is stronger, not weaker; (2) the anger aimed less at denying Oral than at the false charge that the Supper is only bread and wine — which Bucer proved false to Luther many times in the English writings.

(3) Marburg’s terms are Chytraeus’s, not the Author’s Provost-letter version: they had not agreed whether body and blood are corporally present, yet each side would show Christian love and both would pray for the Spirit’s confirmation. Amen.

Latin

Resp. (1.) Testimonium Lutheri tantò præstantius esse & efficacius, quantò magis ab irascente Zwinglianis Luthero profectum est. (2.) Lutheri iram non adeò versam fuisse in Oralis Manducationis Negationem Zwinglianam, quàm in hypothesin, per iram, Zwinglianis imputatam, ab his verò fotam nunquam, quasi in S. Cœna nil nisi panis & vinum habeatur, id quod sexcenties Bucerus Luthero demonstravit in Scriptis suis Anglicis. (3.) Marpurgi non ita conventum esse, ut Autor refert ex Epistola Lutheri ad Præpositum, sed ut Chytræus refert in Hist. August. Confessionis, cujus verba plus semel citata ita habent: Etsi verò an verum corpus & Sanguis Christi CORPORALITER in pane & vino Cœnæ Domini præsens sit, hoc tempore non concordavimus: Tamen UNA PARS ALTERI Christianam dilectionem declarabit, & UTRAQUE PARS Deum omnipotentem diligenter orabit, ut NOS Spiritu suo in vera sententia confirmet, Amen.

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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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