A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §649

Annotatio V §.IV: Reformed impugn Oral’s Fundamentalitatem still more; Anti-Irenicum stretch §§XI–XXIII

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The Reformed impugn Oral not only as to truth but still more as to the Fundamentalitatem hung on it for Christian faith.

Strimesius’s Irenic tract answered the Author’s Anti-Irenic reasons for that fundamentality (§§XI, XIII–XXIII); he now touches them concisely — reading the Author less as serious dispute than as coaching a Respondent how to shout down clear truth for an older hypothesis.

Latin

Cæterùm Reformati, sicuti Mand. corp. Christi Oralem, quà Veritatem, meritò impugnant, ita adhuc magis, quà affictam eidem fidei Christianæ Fundamentalitatem. Ipsum hoc cùm & ego in Tractatulo meo Irenico facere instituissem, rationes etiam pro Fundamentalitate Oralis Manducationis ab Autore, in Anti-Irenico quodam Scripto, excogitatas, diluissem, Autor & meas rationes evertere, & suas ab exceptionibus vindicare omni ope annititur. Ab eo, hoc nomine, Paragraphis XI. XIII. ad XXIII. inclusive, in medium adducta, pro angustioribus Annotationis nostræ cancellis, tantò concisiùs perstringere nobis animus est, quantò ex allatis ab eodem persuasi firmiùs sumus, non tàm disputare eum seriò, quàm Respondentem suum instruere voluisse, quô pactô veritati etiam clarissimæ quandoque obstrepere, quóve Contradictionis velô eandem involvere atque obducere haud adeo multùm verecundandum sit, si quando id ex usu hypotheseos cujusdam antiquioris, Disputanti, fideique suæ sociis receptæ, advertitur futurum.

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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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