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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §261

Annotatio IV §.II close: How error is perfected — bad grasp, false reconciliations, confusions, inept inferences — stop before §.III

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It is finished either by grasping theological things badly and weakly and measuring them by earthly standards — with Nicodemus (John 3:12) and the Capernaites (John 6) —

or by twisting apparent contradictions into harmony outside Scripture: for example Christ’s two sayings in Matt. 26:11 and 28:20, reconciled by inventing a double body of Christ, visible and invisible, though the biblical distinction of Christ’s two natures (Paul, Rom. 1:3–4; 9:5; Peter, 1 Pet. 3:18; 4:1) does it far more easily.

Or by confusing what differs and not distinguishing enough — e.g. any theological truths whatever versus the fundamental and more necessary ones;

or by inferring clumsily — e.g. that God’s omnipotence is denied when his will and revelation in some dogmas are debated; or that a dissenter holds as sure everything rightly or wrongly drawn from his opinion; and so on.

Stop before §. III (further rivulets from either fountain, noted by our Author).

Latin

Perficitur vel malè & aegrè apprehendendo res Theologicas, adque amussim rerum terrestrium dijudicando, cum Nicodemo Joh. 3, 12. & Capernaitis Joh. 6. vel perversè componendo & apparenter contradictoria, extra Scripturam, conciliando. e. g. effata Christi duo Matt. 26. v. 11. & 28. v. 20. confictione duplicis Corporis Christi, visibilis & invisibilis, concilianda a. quàm facillimè distinctione Biblica inter duplicem Christi naturam, tàm Paulo Rom. 1. v. 3. 4. & Cap. 9. 5. quàm Petro 1. C. 3. v. 18. & Cap. 4. 1. recepta. Vel Confundendo diversa nec satis distinguendo, e. g. inter Veritates Theologicas quascunque, & inter Fundamentales magisque necessarias; vel Colligendo ineptè, e. g. negari omnipotentiam Divinam, dum de Dei voluntate & Revelatione in Dogmatibus quibusdam ambigitur; item, dissentientem omnia pro veris certisque habere, quae vel rectè, vel malè, ex Sententia ejus colliguntur. &c.

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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