A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §494

Annotatio IV §.III (1): Presence whose partakers come by spiritual access — true living faith

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(1) The only presence of body, blood, and whole Christ that is recommended is the one we share by spiritual access — true living faith (John 6:35, 47–51).

By that faith we partake spiritually rather than corporally — even outside the Sacred Supper.

Latin

(1) Quia ista duntaxat præsentia corporis & sanguinis, totiusque Christi, commendatur, cujus participes reddimur per spiritualem ad Christum accessum, i. e. per veram vivamque in eum fidem. Ita enim Christus vers. 35. Ego sum panis vitæ: qui ad me venit non esuriet, & qui in me credit, his nunquam sitiet. Et rursus versibus 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. Amen Amen dico vobis qui credit in me, habet vitam æternam. Ego sum panis ille vitæ. Patres vestri ederunt Manna in deserto & mortui sunt. Hic est panis ille qui de cælo descendit, ut qui edit ex eo, non moriatur. Ego sum panis ille vivus qui è Cælo descendi: Si quis ederit ex hoc pane, vivet in æternum. Panis autem quem ego dabo, caro mea est, quam ego dabo pro mundi vita; At per Spiritualem ad Christum accessum fidemque veram ac vivam, non tàm Corporalis corporis & sanguinis Christi quàm Spiritualis potiùs, etiam extra S. Cœnam, reddimur participes.

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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