A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §717

Annotatio VI §.V AD POSTERIUS: Word/Baptism need inward Spirit; Supper feeds the already-faithed

Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.

AD POSTERIUS is futile: Word and baptism making Spirit-participants does not prove Impious can take spiritual body-food.

Inward Spirit-operation regenerates, not bare hearing or water alone; and the Supper is not same-ratio with Word/Baptism — those make a Christian, this feeds one already gifted with faith. Without faith there is no partaking, and no increase of faith by that food.

Latin

Frustra item AD POSTERIUS excipitur: Homines omnes, naturâ suâ, Spiritu Sancto omnique spirituali vitâ cassos, nihilominus Spiritûs Sancti fieri participes idque mediante verbô, extrinsecè prædicato auditóque, mediante item aquæ baptismate, corpori administrato. Resp. (a) Non solam externam verbi divini prædicationem ac auditionem, nec solam aquæ baptismalis externam administrationem, sed internam Spiritus S. operationem adjunctam, corda humana regenerare & spiritualitate salvifica imbuere. (b) Cœnam S. non esse cum Verbo & Baptismate, ejusdem rationis, quandoquidem hæc Christiano vero ac genuino efficiendo, ista, jam tum effecto fideque donato inserviunt. Unde qui fide non instructus, uti corporis Christi, cibi merè spiritualis, non potest fieri particeps, ita per illud ipsum in fide corroborari & augeri nequit.

About this text

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.

Witnesses

This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.