A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §95

Yet these are wishes only — experience proves the labor dies like water poured away

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And yet these are only wishes — wishes, nothing more — and so have been all the study, speech, and labor spent on that end till now.

Sad experience has shown that the work carries empty wind up to the airy clouds, and dies badly — like the old saying about three kinds of water: the stream that runs into the sea, the water mixed into wine, and the water poured on a Jew for Christian baptism.

Latin

QUANQUAM sunt haec quaedam vota, sed vota tantùm, omniaque hactenus eam in rem studia, dicta, factaque. Ventos irrita ferre ad nebulas aërias, ac malè perire, tristis experientia comprobavit: Quod de triplici aquarum genere dictum, qualis quae influit in mare, quae Vino affusa, aut quae in Judaeum effusa tingendum Christiano ritu.

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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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