A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §406

Annotatio II §.IX (1): Scripture — bread is called body, not body corporally present in the bread

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(1) Scripture and Institution say the bread is Christ’s body — not that the body is present to the bread, less corporally present to it, least of all corporally present in it.

Call presence corporal and you import locality and inclusion; then the bread is not the body, because the body is only said to exist corporally present in the bread.

Latin

Enimverò Consubstantiatio quæcunque etiam Subtilior, maximè Lutheri recitata modò, subtiliori utut, quin subtilissima, nobis haud invitis, accensenda, adversa conspicitur: (1) Expressis Scripturæ ipsiusque Institutionis Sacræ Coenæ verbis, quibus panis quidem corpus Christi dicitur esse, non autem Corpus Christi pani præsens, minus, pani corporaliter præsens, minimè omnium, in ipso pane, corporaliter præsens esse. Certè Corporalis præsentia corporis Christi in pane, præterquam quòd Localem præsentiam inferit, quatenus Corporalis esse dicitur (Corporalitate cum Localitate, saltem intrinseca, æquè latè patente) & inclusionem dicit, quatenus in pane, licèt & extra eum, Corpus Christi corporaliter præsens perhibetur, & eo ipso panis non est Corpus Christi, quia corpus Christi duntaxat in pane corporaliter præsens existere dicitur.

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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