A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §740

Annotatio VI §.VIII: drop contradictory/unrevealed speech and invidious ‘they pretend’ charge

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What remains: the Author and all who widen Protestant schism must drop unrevealed, contradictory Supper-speech (spiritual food orally chewed; Indigni oral eating; non-dental solid eating; natural mouth yet merely heavenly, &c.).

Drop also profane charges (faith-presence a fiction; spiritual eating imaginary; faith mere thought) and the invidious claim that the Reformed pretend belief while saying another thing to deceive.

Latin

Sed hoc unum restat, ut Clarissimus Autor, & quotquot Schisma Protestanticum fovent atque dilatant, à modis loquendi in S. Cœna, partim non revelatis, simulque contradictoriis (quales sunt: corpus Christi, cibum merè licèt Spiritualem, propriè tamen & Oraliter manducari; Itemque ab indignis propriè & oraliter manducari; Propriam etiam Manducationem, solidi licèt cibi, non esse tamen dentalem, nec gutturalem, &c.; Oralem insuper Manducationem, ore corporis naturali licèt factam, esse tamen merè Supernaturalem & Cælestem, propterea, quòd Objectum Manducationis Oralis, Corpus Christi, supernaturalis & Cœlestis tantum cibus est, Instrumento nihilominus naturali & terrestri manducandus); Partim à profanis & Religione Christiana indignis (quales sunt: Præsentiam corporis Christi per fidem, esse merum Commentum; Manducationem Spiritualem esse merè imaginariam; Fidem, meram imaginationem & cogitationem); partim denique ab invidiosis & charitatem christianam gravissimè lædentibus, quales sunt: REFORMATOS NON CREDERE, QUOD SE CREDERE SIMULANT, ILLOS ALIUD SENTIRE, ALIUD LOQUI, VERBIS INSIDIOSE CONCEPTIS ET AD DECIPIENDOS HOMINES COMPOSITIS, PRÆSENTIAM CORPORIS CHRISTI IN S. CŒNA FATERI — toti abstineant.

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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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