A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §472

Annotatio III §.X (6): Ratio / Philosophy theoretical — overturns substance, accident, spirit, body, place, penetration

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(6) Cleaner Reason / Philosophy — theoretical first.

It overturns essential ideas of substance and accident, spirit and body, penetrability, extension, locality: strips finite substance of essential accidents, frees accidents from inherence, spirits Christ’s body by denying extension, impenetrability, and place — which even omnipotence will not admit as contradictories via miracle.

Latin

(6.) Rationi Emaculatiori, i. e. Philosophiæ, tùm Theoreticæ, tum Practicæ. Priori quidem, dum primarum ac præcipuarum rerum, Substantiæ puta & Accidentis, Spiritus & Corporis, Penetrabilitatis & Impenetrabilitatis, Extensionis & Localitatis essentiales Ideas ac Definitiones invertit ac concutit, Substantiam Finitam definitamque accidentibus suis essentialibus exuendo, Accidentia ab Inhæsione, in substantia, actuali absolvendo, corpus & sanguinem Christi in spiritum commutando, per negatam iisdem tum extensionem, tùm impenetrationem tùm localitatem, humanis corporibus essentialiter debitas, indeque nec per miracula, ab essentiarum ad unum omnium finitarum Autore, etsi pro Lubitu suô Annihilatore quoque potentissimo, contradictoria interim nulla, idque per & propter omnipotentiam suam, admissuro, destituendas.

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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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