A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §374

Annotatio II §.III close CONCEPTIO error 1: Fathers twisted toward corporal union ante usum; stop before §.IV

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Those Father-sayings meant legitimate use: the worthy receive earthly and celestial; 1 Tim. 4 sanctification; Spirit’s virtue toward communicants, not a changed bread-substance.

Rhetorical, not metaphysical — yet consubstantiation-pressers twist them as if the Fathers taught corporal bread–body union before and outside faithful use, ex opere operato to any eater.

Stop before §.IV (SECOND error — middle-ages Fathers after Chalcedon).

Latin

Itaque recitata hactenus dicta Patrum aliaque similia quàm plurima, quibus equidem Eucharistiam sacram duplici substantia constare illi dixerunt, sed de legitimo tantùm usu intellexerunt, in quo, dignè accedentes, non terrestrem solum panem, sed & Cælestim participant, panem Eucharisticum precibus quidem sanctificari, sed ea sanctificatione, quâ omnia alia, perhibente Apostolo 1. Tim. 4. virtutem quidem ac efficaciam divinam, pani, vel affundi, vel infundi, à Spiritu Sancto, sed respectu duntaxat eorum qui pane sacramentali ritè vescuntur (utpote qui soli, non autem panis, δυνάμει εἰς δύναμιν virtute in virtutem spiritualem, per spiritualem corporis Christi participationem, transmutantur); Hæc inquam dicta Patrum, Rhetoricô præterea elata stylô, nec ad Metaphysicum rigorem exigenda, illuc, per errorem, traxerunt Consubstantiationem enixuri & interpretati sunt, acsi Patres Corporalem Unionem panis & corporis Christi, in Coena Sacra, etiam ante, & extra usum, seu perceptionem panis fidelem, fieri inculcassent, ex opere operato, vescenti cuivis, virtutem spiritualem, quin ipsam corporis Christi substantiam, corporali modo, conciliaturam ac communicaturam.

About this text

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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