A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §241

Annotatio III §.VIII close: Prayer for the Sacred Peace building; Royal Rescript to Bishop Ursinus introduced — stop before Rescript body

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This is what we vow and pray from the heart for our Most Pious King:

that, with the Most High God of Peace blessing him, he may carry the building of Sacred Peace as happily as possible to its very summit — last year he again strove to lay its foundation, most kindly using our slight labor —

other kings and princes also helping as tireless promoters of kindly church peace, for God’s glory and the comfort and joy of all Evangelicals.

We judge the Royal Rescript in this business — given to his first bishop, the Most Reverend Lord Benjamin Ursinus, and turned from German into Latin — should be set before our reader here,

so anyone may judge the most sincere intention of our August King and his most fervent zeal to promote ecclesiastical peace.

Stop before the Rescript body (Nos Dei Gratia Fridericus Rex Borussiae…).

Latin

Hic REX NOSTER PIENTISSIMUS, ut aedificium Pacis Sacrae, (cujus Fundamentum praeteritô annô denuò jacere molitus est, exilique opellâ nostrâ, ad id quam clementissimè usus) benedicente Pacis DEO O. M. quàm felicissimè provehat, adque ipsum Fastigium, succurrentibus etiam aliis Regibus Principibusque, Almae Pacis Ecclesiasticae Promotoribus indefessis, in DEI Gloriam & Evangelicorum omnium Solatium Gaudiumque perducat, est, quod animitus vovemus precamurque. Rescriptum in hoc Negotio Regium, ad Episcopum suum primum, Reverendissimum Dominum BENJAMIN URSINUM, datum, & ex Germanico in Latinum versum, Lectori nostro hôc locô communicandum ducimus, quò de sincerissima AUGUSTI REGIS NOSTRI Intentione, deque Ejus studio, Pacem Ecclesiasticam promovendi fervidissimo, judicare cuivis integrum sit.

About this text

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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