A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §98

Hexades Prooemium H.I: Midway in the second millennium, is Reformation itself or its necessity more to be remembered?

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HEXAS OF ANNOTATIONS on the blessed Spanheim's historical and reconciling Protheoria of the chief controversies with the theologians of the Augsburg Confession, as they are called.

Prooemium. H. I.

We judge it nearly an open question whether the middle stretch of the second millennium — from Christ's birth to the end of all ages — that learned men who follow some Jewish Elijah more commonly expect (the stretch to which both the Elenchus-writer's Protheoria and our own historical-reconciling Protheoria belong) is better remembered, through every age still to come, by Christianity's Reformation itself, or by the necessity of Reformation.

Latin

HEXAS ANNOTATIONUM AD B. SPANHEMII PROTHEORIAM HISTORICAM ET CATALLACTICAM PRAECIPUARUM CONTROVERSIARUM CUM AUGUSTANAE CONFESSIONIS, UT VOCANTUR, THEOLOGIS. Prooemium. H. I. Seculum decimum quintum, Secundi Millennii, inde à Christo nato, ad Seculorum omnium consummationem, communiori Doctorum, Eliam quempiam Judaeum sequentium, opinione, expectandi Medium (ad quod tum Elenchi Auctoris, tum nostra, Protheoria Historico-Catallactica pertinet) num Reformatione Christianismi ipsâ, an Reformationis Necessitate, per cuncta adhuc secutura Secula, commemorandum magis sit, in ambiguo propemodùm positum arbitramur.

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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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