A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §75

Melanchthon and many Lutherans deny Suevic ubiquity and put multivolitional presence in its place

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Melanchthon, Peucer, Heshusius, Hofmann himself, Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Selnecker, Major, and others joined the Reformed in denying the Suevic ubiquity of Christ's flesh.

So did the Danes, Holsteiners, Brunswickers, Helmstedt men, Anhaltines, Hessians, the Lower-Saxon theologians, and the Nurembergers, long since.

Chemnitz led the way: instead of ubiquity — or πανταχεσία — they put a multivolitional presence.

That means a real κοινωνία or μετοχή of the divine operations in the human nature, so that it is wherever and whenever it wills to be, or can be wherever it wishes — the Hessian reading in their Judgment on the Torgau Formula (1567).

Latin

Sed & Ubiquitatem Suevicam Carnis Christi, cum Reformatis, negarunt Melanchthon, Peucerus, Heshusius, ipse Hofmannus, Chemnitius, Chytraeus, Selneccerus, Major, &c. ac pridem Dani, Holsati, Brunswicenses, Helmstadienses, Anhaltini, Hassi, inferioris Saxoniae Theologi, Norimbergenses, &c. Et, Chemnitio praeeunte, substituerunt loco Ubiquitatis, seu πανταχεσίας, Multivoli-praesentiam; Id est, κοινωνίαν vel μετοχὴν realem Divinarum Operationum in Nat. Humana, qua sit ubicunque vult esse, & quandocunque vult; vel qua possit esse ubicunque velit, ut Hassi in Judicio suo de Formula Torgensi, A. 1567.

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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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