A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §167

§.XIV (5): With Bergen Fathers — Formula Concord above AC; ignore own churches/princes; Formulists keep mutated Art. X

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(5.) Those who with the Bergen Fathers rank the Formula of Concord — that most unhappy apple of strife (ἔριδος) and of all Protestant quarrel, notorious for bodily manducation and omnipresence of Christ's body — older than the Augsburg Confession itself, which knows nothing of those dogmas and is empty of them.

They care nothing that their own side has contradicted it with great zeal both formerly and now — churches and their most pious, learned doctors, and also princes and estates of the Romano-German Empire — and that some still contradict it today (Crocius, German tract from p. 99; Commentary on the Augsburg Confession passim, esp. p. 282).

Nor do they care that the Formula itself kept the changed Article X of the Augsburg Confession — which does not match the German of the prototype — the very change for which Formulists attack the Variata so bitterly — and that the Formula itself has suffered very frequent mutations and variations.

See the Anhang der ausführlichen Behauptung, pp. 26–36.

Latin

(5.) Qui cum PATRIBUS BERGENSIBUS Formulam Concordiae, verum istud ἔριδος omnisque contentionis Protestanticæ pomum infaustissimum, quippe de Manducatione & Omnipraesentia Corporis Christi Corporalibus famosum dogmatibus, ipsâ Augustana Confessione, horum Dogmatum penitus ignara vacuâq;, antiquiorem ducunt; nec quicquam morantur, tàm olim, quàm nunc, etiam à suis, cùm Ecclesiis, harumque Doctoribus piissimis atque doctissimis, tum Principibus & Imperii Romano-Germanici Statibus, maximo cùm zelo contradictum esse, hodieque à nonnullis contradici, (vid. Joh. Crocium in Tractatu Germanico à pag. 99. & in Comment. August. Confess. passim, praecipuè pag. 282.) ipsam etiam Formulam Concordiae, tam mutatum August. Confessionis Articulum X., i. e. Germanico Idiomati Prototypi haud respondentem, (propter quem tamen Articulum mutatum, adeò acerbè in Variatam Confessionem Formulistae invehuntur) retinuisse, quam ipsam per se creberrimas mutationes ac variationes passam esse. Vid. Anhang der ausführlichen Behauptung à pag. 26. ad 36.

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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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