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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §93

And should Lutherans receive the Reformed as Augsburg partners — without Formula-of-Concord anathemas?

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And should the Lutherans, for their part, count the Reformed as brethren — even as partners of the Augsburg Confession in Melanchthon's revised form — as to the substance of what must be believed and done?

Should they keep peace and mutual correspondence with us, and join mutual leagues against the Roman Antichrist?

Not with the old rashness of damning, as in the Book of Concord and what followed; not with the appetite for baiting and tearing that brands men Nestorians, Manichaeans, Predestinarians, Sacramentarians, and the rest — in pulpits and in print.

All the more so because the Reformed themselves, with their whole heart, abhor the ugly consequences painted onto them: an unmerciful God, God as author of sin, and the like.

Latin

Et an vicissìm Lutherani Reformatos habere debeant pro fratribus, quin pro sociis Augustanae Confessionis, ut à Melanchthone recognita est, quoad substantiam credendorum & faciendorum; adeóque nobiscum pacem ac mutuam correspondentiam colere, venireque in mutua adversùs Antichristum Romanum foedera? Procul scilicet damnandi temeritate, ut factum olim in Libro Concordiae, ac deinceps, vel exagitandi ac lacerandi libidine, invidiosissimis appellationibus Nestorianorum, Manichaeorum, Praedestinatianorum, Sacramentariorum, &c. idque in Concionibus, & Scriptis; Quo magis invidiosissimas Consequentias, de Deo Immiseracorde, Auctore peccati, &c. toto pectore Reformati detestantur?

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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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