A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §491

Annotatio IV §.II: John 6 = antecedent most lucid commentary on the Institution words

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So read, John 6 specially exposes what the sacramental Mode of presence and participation is — the antecedent, most lucid commentary on the Institution words.

Not on a Supper already instituted then, but on the one soon to be: torch and light for ‘This is my Body’ / ‘This is my blood,’ clearing the disciples’ scruples.

Latin

Ceterum hôc posteriori modo cap. Joh. 6. de S. Cœna deque Sacramentali & carnis & sanguinis Christi tùm præsentia, tùm participatione, ita specialtim agitur, ut quis hic modus sacramentalis utriusque, & qualis censendus sit, omnium disertissimè inibi exponatur, quô proinde nomine sermonem Christi, Joh. 6. cap. habitum, antecedaneum verborum Institutionis Christi eumque luculentissimum Commentarium arbitramur esse, i. e. Commentarium non de jam tum instituta, sed de paulò post instituenda S. Cœna, tantam huic facem præferentem, tantumque luminis, concisis Institutionis Christi verbis: Hoc est Corpus meum, & Hic enim sanguis meus, fæneratum, ut Discipulis Christi, per Magistri sui sermonem istum, objectionibus & dubiis suis omnibus plenissimè liberatis, nullum amplius scrupulum ista vel moverint, vel quiverint movere.

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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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