A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §436

Annotatio III §.VI: Berengar revokes the forced palinode — Hildebrand/Gregory VII beats him into a new substantial-conversion formula

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Berengar, conscience-struck, published a revocation of that forced palinode as absurd and impious, calling the council a church of the malignant and of vanity.

Hildebrand (Gregory VII) summoned him to Rome, beat him with rods, and after a three-month truce forced a new formula: mystic bread substantially converted into Christ’s true proper flesh.

Latin

Quin tandem, cum Berengarius, ob negatam veritatem, sibi malè conscius, ad seipsum rediisset, & suam ipsius revocationem non minus absurdam quam impiam, scripto editô revocasset, eamque per vim sibi extortam esse ab Ecclesia malignantium & vanitatis Concilio, significasset, ab Hildebrando, aliis Hellenbrando, Gregorio VII. appellato, ad Romanum Concilium evocatus virgisque cæsus ad novam recantationem, trium mensium concessis induciis, coactus postliminio est, obtrusâ palinodiæ seu professionis ejusmodi formulâ, quâ panem mysticum substantialiter converti in veram & propriam carnem Christi, sub gravissimo Papæ præcepto, deinceps confitendum erat.

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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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