A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §45

Unjust accusations: Leipzig and Cassel left Reformed grace standing; no illusory will toward the reprobate

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Unjust accusations against the Reformed. As for the Reformers' dissent on universal grace, redemption, and vocation: the Saxons at the Leipzig Colloquy of 1631 did not press it. The Rinteln theologians at the Cassel Colloquy (as already seen above) confessed that the foundation of divine grace stands unshaken among the Reformed, and that both sides agree (1) in equally condemning Pelagian and Semi-Pelagian dogmas, and (2) in pressing the practical rules that suspend justification on antecedent faith, and salvation also on perseverance.

And it was certainly laid on the Reformed as if they had asserted some illusory will in God toward the reprobate — whereas that will is always serious: as to the exacting of duty in the Word; as to the proposing of the one way to salvation, through faith in Christ; and as to the truth of that individual bond between faith and salvation. On these the perpetual truth of the saying rests: whoever believes will be saved, and so on.

On this see the Controversy with the early Arminians, IV, and afterward Controv. XXXI; and our own Biblical Vindication at Matthew 11:28.

Latin

Iniqua accusationes in Reformat. Dissensionem Reformatorum, quoad Universalem Gratiam, Redemptionem, Vocationem, non urserant Saxonici in Colloquio Lipsiensi, Anni 1631. Rintelenses in Colloquio Cassellano (ut visum supra) fassi sunt, inconcussum esse per Reformatos, Gratiae divinae fundamentum, & convenire inter utrosque, 1. In damnandis ex aequo Pelagianis & Semi-Pelagianis dogmatis. 2. In urgendis regulis practicis, quae salutem & Justificationem suspendunt, hanc ab antecedente fide, illam etiam à perseverantia. Et certè impositum Reformatis fuit, quasi voluntatem ullam in Deo asseruerint illusoriam, respectu reproborum, quae semper seria, tùm quoad exactionem officii in Verbo; tùm, quoad propositionem unice ad salutem viae, per fidem in Christum; tum quoad veritatem individui illius nexûs, inter fidem & salutem; In quibus fundatur perpetua veritas illius effati, quicunque crediderit servabitur, &c. Quâ de re in Controv. cum primis Armin. IV. deinceps & Controv. XXXI. & nos in Vind. Bibl. ad locum Matth. XI. 28.

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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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