A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §226

Annotatio III §.VI (1): Reformed at Leipzig ready to subscribe the Invariata — Variata not rejected; Nauenburg 1561 precedent; Brandenburg/Hessian Relation confession

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(1) Right at the start the Reformed theologians did not hesitate to bind themselves to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession, and were fully ready to subscribe it whenever the other side asked — without rejecting or repudiating the Variata (Philippica), which they defended as the Imperial Estates had admitted it at the Nauenburg Convention in 1561.

Since this Leipzig Reformed act has been remembered before, it helps to bring in their own words from the German Relation of the Leipzig Colloquy.

There the Brandenburg and Hessian theologians voluntarily confessed with mouth and heart the 1530 Confession delivered to Charles V at Augsburg, and said they would subscribe it — even the Saxon Elector’s exemplar in the Augapfel — whenever and wherever asked, because they and their lords already bound themselves to it in church and school.

Latin

(1) Quòd sub ipsum initium Reformati Theologi, Confessioni Augustanae Invariatae sese addicere nulli dubitarunt, paratissimi etiam subscribere eidem, quandocunque istud altera pars desideraret, non rejectâ interim aut repudiata Variata, seu Philippicâ, defensâ verò eô modô, quô Status Imperii in Conventu Nauenburgico An. 1561. hanc quoque ipsam admittendam duxerant. Cum hujus Reformatorum Lipsiensium facti jam aliquoties meminerimus, juvabit hôc locô verba eorum huc facientia in medium adducere, ex Relatione de Colloquio Lipsiaco, germanica.

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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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