A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §724

Annotatio VI §.VI reply: sacraments restricted extrinsically to God’s requisite, not arbitrium

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Reply: the same could be said of spiritual eating. Sacraments are restricted not constitutively but extrinsically — to requisites that are God’s work, not man’s arbitrium.

“No faith, no operation ⇒ depends on human will” fails the same way Lutheran conversion talk fails: the power to receive or not is itself God’s preventing gift with the word. So the Wittenberg/Luther citations beat the air.

Latin

Resp. (a) Indirectè: Idem dici posse ratione spiritualis Manducationis. (b) Directè: Sacramenta esse restricta & suspensa non Intrinsecè & Constitutivè, sed Extrinsecè, Effectivè & Objectivè. Esse restricta ad requisita hominis, sed talia, quæ opus Dei, non hominum sunt. Hinc negatur consequentia: Sacramenta non operantur, nisi suppositâ fide hominis, Ergo Sacramentorum Operatio dependet ab Hominis arbitrio & opere. Quemadmodum non valet, vel juxta Lutheranos: Verbum DEI operatur Conversionem; Vel: Deus seu Spiritus S. convertit hominem eúmque donat fide, nisi rejiciat gratiam DEI, Ergo Conversio hominis dependet ab humano arbitrio: Nam quia illa ipsa potentia recipiendi & non recipiendi, in sensu composito, est opus DEI, non hominis, utpote, per gratiam prævenientem, cum annunciatione verbi divini, donata, Conversio quidem restringitur ad Requisitum in homine, sed ad tale, quod non homo, sed virtus & potentia DEI, operantur, ut non ab homine, sed DEO proficiscatur. Hoc pacto aërem quoque feriunt omnia, à Clariss. Viro, tam ex se, quam ex Luthero allata.

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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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