A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §60

Controv. VIII: Converting grace through the Gospel — resistible or superable, effective as man obeys or resists

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VIII. Next comes the controversy on converting grace through the Word of the Gospel: an operation that can be resisted or overcome, and whether that grace is effective or ineffective, as a person by the Gospel's power can obey it or by inborn malice can resist it.

At first glance this looks like the Arminian Controversy, Article IV — of which more at p. 254 and following.

Latin

VIII. Excipit Controversia de Gratia convertentis, per Verbum Evangelii, operatione resistibili vel superabili, deque ejus efficacia vel inefficacia, prout homo in virtute Evangelii illi obsequium praestare aut per connatam malitiam Gratiae resistere potest. Quae prima fronte videtur coincidere cum Controversia Armin. Artic. IV. de qua pluribus p. 254. &c.

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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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