A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §272

Annotatio V §.II: Against making all dogmas hang on Roman authority — Constance / papal council can inflate the least

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who own no fundamentals in themselves — neither by immediate divine authority nor by their nature as founding the Christian faith —

but hang every dogma of the faith, great or small, as to truth, necessity, or fundamentality, on the authority of the Roman Church.

So what barely touches the Christian faith, or even runs against it, can still, through some Constance or papal council, become essential to that faith — even the greatest point.

Latin

Fundamentales, sive auctoritate Divinâ eâque immediatâ, sive naturâ suâ talia, quòd fidem Christianam fundant, per se agnoscentes nulla, omnia verò Dogmata fidei Christianae maxima minimaque, tùm quà Veritatem, tùm quà Necessitatem, aut Fundamentalitatem, ab Auctoritate Ecclesiae Romanae suspendentes, quâ fit, ut quod vel fidem Christianam contingit minimum, vel fidei Christianae adversum est, illud nihilominus, hôc non obstante, per Constantiense quoddam, vel Papale Concilium, fidei Christianae essentiale evadat vel maximum,

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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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