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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §76

First falsehoods of the Ubiquitarians: without infinite flesh the hypostatic union supposedly dissolves

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Those theologians commonly called Ubiquitarians had many first falsehoods. The harsher among them — and their chiefs — were the Swabians.

One sample: they say the hypostatic union of the natures dissolves unless the human nature is stretched to match the divine — equally infinite, equally omnipresent, and so on.

Turn the charge around and it is ready: the marvel of ubiquity is what cancels that personal union.

On that path they collapsed two phrases into one: "the whole Christ," said of the person and of the subject-which (subjectum quod), and "the whole of Christ," said of the united natures or the subject-by-which (subjectum quo).

Latin

Πρῶτα ψεύδη eorum Theologorum qui vulgo Ubiquitarii, & quorum duriores sed & principes Suevi, fuere plurima. Ex. gr. solvi Unionem Hypostaticam Naturarum, si Humana Divinae non sit commensurata, aeque infinita, omnipraesens, &c. Retorsione in promptu; tolli eam Personalem Unionem portento Ubiquitatis: Sic supposuere, Totum Christum, quod dictum de Persona, & subjecto quod, ac Totum Christi, quod de Naturis unitis, vel subjecto quo, unum & idem esse.

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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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