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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §178

Annotatio II §.II: Who fundamentally consents or dissents — Socinians(juris)/Pontificii(facti); Protestants agree except domestic-necessity urgings

§. II. Those finally are said to agree fundamentally in Christian religion and faith, in the theological sense, who agree in everything God has called necessary to faith and salvation — and who count as necessary neither other things, nor more, nor fewer, than God has commanded to be such in his word.

Those dissent fundamentally who either diverge from the necessaries of faith and salvation so named by God, denying all or some of them as to truth or as to necessity; or who, beyond the divine necessaries, forge and push other things as necessary apart from God's word.

Of these dissents the former is more a matter of right; the latter more of fact. Socinians dissent fundamentally from Protestants in the former way; Romanists in the latter.

Protestants, or Evangelicals, are understood to agree fundamentally among themselves in both ways — except those who still press as necessary certain personal doctrines of their own, founded neither in Scripture as to truth nor (still less) as to necessity, and who cut off and damn those who refuse them: thereby falling from the foundation, if not of faith strictly so called (Christian theory), then of charity or practice (the other part of the Christian religion, and of Christian faith in the wider sense).

Latin

§. II. Hinc illi demùm Fundamentaliter in Religione Fideque Christiana consentire Sensu Theologicô dicuntur, qui in omnibus à Deo ad Fidem & Salutem dictis necessariis consentiunt; Necessaria autem nec alia, nec plura, nec pauciora arbitrantur, quàm quae DEus talia in verbo suo jussit esse. E contrario, isti Fundamentaliter dissentiunt, qui vel in Necessariis Fidei & Salutis, à DEO sic dictis, discrepant, negando vel omnia, vel quaedam eorum, idque, vel quà Veritatem, vel quà Necessitatem; vel praeter Necessaria Divina, alia, citra verbum DEi, ceu talia, cudunt obtruduntque. Horum Dissensuum prior Juris magis est; posterior magis Facti. Priori modô Fundamentaliter dissentiunt à Protestantibus Sociniani; Posteriori ab iisdem Pontificii: Protestantes verò, seu Evangelici, Fundamentaliter inter se convenire intelliguntur utrôque modô, excipiendis tamen Protestantibus iis, qui Dogmata quaedam, sibi domestica, neque in Scriptura Sacra, vel quoad Veritatem, nedum Necessitatem, fundata, Necessaria nihilominus urgent, & talia abnuentes à se separant damnantque, eô ipsô, Fundamento, si non Fidei, strictè sic dictae, seu Theoriae Christianae, Charitatis tamen, seu Praxeos (quae Religioni Christianae, adeoque Fidei Christianae latius dictae, pars altera est) excidentes.

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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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