A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §282

Annotatio V §.IV: Orthodox self-claim to the Catholic title alone — ridiculous, not even at one with itself

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Unless those who today brandish the Orthodox name try — how ridiculously — to claim the Catholic Church’s title for themselves alone, or snatch it without thinking.

They cannot even be reconciled with the kinds among their own people, still less with each person in those kinds — not even with one individual, that is, with none of their own at one with himself —

once you allow for shifts of place, time, and other externals that greatly change internals.

Latin

Nisi fortè, qui Orthodoxorum hodie nomine se jactitant, Catholicae quoque Ecclesiae titulum sibi solis quàm ridiculè vindicare, aut incogitanter ad se rapere attentent, utpote ne cum generibus quidem singulorum suorum, nedum cum singulis generum, quin ne cum uno quidem singulorum i. e. cum nemine ex suis secum ipsô, [admissâ locorum temporum aliorumque externorum, interna plurimùm mutantium, discriminatione ac mutatione] conciliandum.

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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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