A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §327

Annotatio I §.II Schmidius: τὸ ῥητόν includes tropic acceptance — Matt. 16:16 and John 6:51 both literal; no Calvinist quarrel so far

Sebastian Schmidius agrees for the Supper proposition itself: the literal sense / the literal meaning is what the words immediately yield when all circumstances are weighed.

He gladly allows that the literal meaning covers not only words taken properly but also words taken tropically.

So Peter’s You are the Son of the living God (Matt. 16:16) and Christ’s I am the living bread (John 6:51) are both literal — though only the second is a trope — and thus far there is no quarrel with the Calvinists (pp. 18–19).

Latin

Cui adstipulatur, etiam quà applicationem ad propositionem S. Coenae de qua nunc quaeritur, Sebastian. Schmidius Tract. de principiis seu Fundamentis praesentiae corporis & Sanguinis Christi in S. Coena cap. 3. §. 17. Literalis sensus, seu τὸ ῥητόν, ait, est is sensus, quem verba ipsa immediatè, consideratis omnibus circumstantiis, reddunt: ubi libenter admittimus τὸ ῥητόν seu literalem sensum non tantùm esse, quem verba propriè sumta dare possunt, sed etiam quem tropicè accepta subministrant. Ut adeò literalem istum sensum, modò, verba propriè accepta, modò, verba tropicè usurpata, suggerant. Sic literalem sensum habent non tantum verba Petri, Matth. 16. vers. 16. Tu es Filius Dei viventis, sed & verba ipsius Domini Jesu, Joh. 6. vers. 51. Ego sum panis vivus; licet hic tropus sit, ibi nullus. Et hactenus inter nos & Calvinianos nihil erit controversiae, p. 18. in fin. & 19.

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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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