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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §97

Do not reproach us for party names we suffer unwillingly — remember your own labels

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Nor may they cast our quarrels — or the contentious nicknames we suffer against our will and do not freely borrow from masters as if those men were demigods — more bitterly in our teeth.

Let them mind the knapsack on their own back. Let them remember the party names among themselves, and the writings that truly brand men in public, in the fights over the Lord's Supper after the Confession was amended, over predestination, ubiquity, the Formula of Concord, the communication of properties, that mode of conversion or justification, the necessity of works, the adiaphora, and the Interim — and the rest.

Hence the names common among them, so often run through with shafts or struck by anathema: Philippists, Synergists, Flacians, Brentio-Flacians, Heshusians, Formulists, Hoffmannians, Osiandrists, Majorists, Adiaphorists, Hessian-Calvinists or Zwinglians, adherents of the Variata or of the Invariata Confession, and so on.

Here Controv. XV on mutual tolerance closes before the Hexades Annotationum on Spanheim's Protheoria.

Latin

Nec est quod nostras nobis dissensiones, aut contentiosas ἐπωνυμίας, quas inviti patimur, non ultrò à Magistris, quasi Theandris, mutuamur, invidiosius exprobrent. Viderint illi manticae quod in tergo est, ac meminerint ἐπωνυμιῶν inter suos ac scriptionum verè στηλιτευτικῶν, in causis, de Coena Domini, post emendatam Confessionem, de Praedestinatione, de Ubiquitate, de Formula Concordiae, de Communicatione Idiomatum, de Modo Conversionis, aut Justificationis illo, de Operum necessitate, de Adiaphoris & Libro Interim, &c. Undè obvia inter illos Nomina, tot quandoque telis transfixa, aut anathematis percussa, Ex gr. Philippistarum, Synergistarum, Flaccianorum, Brentio-Flaccianorum, Heshusianorum, Formulistarum, Hoffmannianorum, Osiandristarum, Majoristarum, Adiaphoristarum, Hasso-Calvinistarum vel Zwinglianorum, Variatae vel Invariatae Confessioni adhaerentium, &c.

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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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