A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §704

Annotatio VI §.III (3): Augustine/Zeno — outside Christ they eat sacrament unto condemnation

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(3) Those outside Christ’s communion by malice who still take the Lord’s table eat eternal ruin to themselves — so Augustine and many Fathers.

Augustine: without abiding in Christ they do not eat spiritually, even if teeth press the sacrament unto condemnation. Zeno of Verona: the one in whom the Devil dwells does not eat the Lord’s flesh, though he seem to communicate with the faithful (Jn 6).

Latin

(3) De iisdem omnibus, seu indignè communicantibus, qui per malitiam suam & improbitatem extra communionem Christi positi, nihilominus mensæ Domini communicant, eos sibi æternum exitium comedere, & Augustini, & multorum aliorum Patrum testimonia exstant. Ita enim denuo Augustinus: Ille qui non in Christo manet, & Christus in illo, non edit spiritualiter carnem ejus & sanguinem ejus bibit, etiamsi visibiliter & carnaliter dentibus premat, (non, corpus Christi & sanguinem) sed Sacramentum Corporis & Sang. Christi, seu potius edit & bibit Sacramentum tantæ rei, in condemnationem. Cui prælusit Zeno Veronensis, Origini coævus: Verendi causa est, ait, eum, in quo Diabolus habitat, non edere carnem Domini, nec bibere ejus Sanguinem, etiamsi videatur cum fidelibus communicare: Quandoquidem verba Domini ita habent: Qui manducat carnem meam & bibit Sanguinem meum, ille in me manet & ego in ipso.

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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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