A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §742

Annotatio VI §.VIII close: fortify Evangelic consensus; truth in love; Jubilee — DEI SOLIUS GLORIAM

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Both sides should fortify that already-open way: confess the fundamental Evangelic consensus (Lutheran–Reformed) in the open; treat the lesser remaining dissent with calm conference, revealed truth, no extra-revelatory necessary dogmas, tolerance, and prayer for weaker kin.

Doctors of both sides: speak the truth in love, grow into Christ the head, unto one faith and knowledge of the Son — peaceful sons of God — and keep the coming Marchic Jubilee in everlasting solemnity unto the GLORY OF GOD ALONE. Annotatio VI closes.

Latin

Aditum itaque hunc jam tum munitum, muniat ampliùs utraque pars. Fundamentalem Consensum Evangelicorum, i. e. Lutheranos inter & Reformatos, omnium oculos perstringentem, apertè fateatur; De Dissensu qui restat, minus fundamentali, placidè inter se conferendo, Veritatem revelatam piè meditando, scrutando, nullum, extra Revelationem, ad fidem & salutem necessarium Dogma constituendo, errantes infirmósque in fide tolerando, pro istis, ceu fidei consanguineis, apud Deum precibus intercedendo, minuat éque medio tollere studeat; Omnes utriusque partis Doctores memores identidem sint loquendi veritatem in charitate, ut sic utriusque partis cœtus omnes in sincera charitate mutua adolescant in eum, qui est caput, nempe Christus, ex quo totum corpus congruenter coagmentatum succrescit, donec tandem singuli perveniamus ad unam per omnia fidem & Cognitionem filii DEI, perfectíque evadamus ad mensuram perfectæ Christianitatis, verè sic pacifici & filii DEI nuncupandi Festúmque Jubilare, cum Ecclesia & Universitate Marchica, mox celebrandum, sempiternâ Solennitate continuaturi in DEI SOLIUS GLORIAM.

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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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