A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §63

Controv. IX: Perseverance of the truly just — uncertain necessity, and possible total final fall from grace and faith

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IX. Next comes perseverance of the truly just — regenerate people once justified by faith and already set in grace — treated as if that standing were neither sure nor necessary, and as if the same people could leave grace and faith altogether and for good, and so lose salvation.

At that point the Arminian dispute, Article V (pages 257–258), seems to reappear.

Compare also the Socinian controversy, LXI (pages 219–220).

Even so, we refuse to lump the Lutheran brethren in with those camps.

Latin

IX. De Perseverantia vere justorum, regenitorum (postquam semel justificati per fidem, & in statu Gratiae positi sunt) tanquam non certa aut necessaria, deque possibili eorum defectione a gratia & fide, eademque totali & finali, hinc & salute; videtur redire Controversia cum Arminian. Art. V. pag. 257. 258. Vide & Controv. cum Socinian. LXI. p. 219. 220. Nec tamen Lutheranos Fratres cum istis confundimus.

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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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