A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §271

Annotatio V §.II open: What sets just bounds — Fundamental faith-dogmas, not every Christian truth

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§. II. What sets just bounds for church consociation is not every Christian truth whatever, but the Fundamental dogmas of the Christian faith (described in Annotation 2).

That such fundamentals exist, distinct from less fundamental dogmas, has been shown elsewhere — by our Author’s Tract on Fundamentals (Disp. 1–2) and his Specimen against the Bishop of Condom (pp. 63–70), and by us in the Dissertation on Church Peace (ch. 7) and the Inquiry into the Arminians (Annot. 17) —

and all Protestants reckon the same way, even against the Roman party,

Latin

§. II. Res Consociationem Ecclesiasticam limitantes, seu justos ei terminos figentes, non sunt Veritates Christianae quaecunque, sed Fundamentales, seu Fundamentalia Fidei Christianae dogmata, Annot. 2dâ descripta. Talia dari, ab aliis scilicet Fidei Christianae dogmatibus minùs fundamentalibus diversa, hisque contradistinguenda, probatum alibi, tùm ab Autore nostro Tract. de Fundamentalibus, Disp. 1. & 2. itemque Specim. Strict. contra Episcop. Condomiensem a. p. 63. ad 70. tùm à nobis, Dissert. de Pace Eccles. Cap. 7. & in Inquisit. in Arminianis. Annot. 17. omniumque Protestantium calculô confirmatum, etiam adversus Pontificios,

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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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