A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §178 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio II §.II: Who fundamentally consents or dissents — Socinians(juris)/Pontificii(facti); Protestants agree except domestic-necessity urgings

§. II. Those finally are said to agree fundamentally in Christian religion and faith, in the theological sense, who agree in everything God has called necessary to faith and salvation — and who count as necessary neither other things, nor more, nor fewer, than God has commanded to be such in his word.

Those dissent fundamentally who either diverge from the necessaries of faith and salvation so named by God, denying all or some of them as to truth or as to necessity; or who, beyond the divine necessaries, forge and push other things as necessary apart from God's word.

Of these dissents the former is more a matter of right; the latter more of fact. Socinians dissent fundamentally from Protestants in the former way; Romanists in the latter.

Protestants, or Evangelicals, are understood to agree fundamentally among themselves in both ways — except those who still press as necessary certain personal doctrines of their own, founded neither in Scripture as to truth nor (still less) as to necessity, and who cut off and damn those who refuse them: thereby falling from the foundation, if not of faith strictly so called (Christian theory), then of charity or practice (the other part of the Christian religion, and of Christian faith in the wider sense).

Latin

§. II. Hinc illi demùm Fundamentaliter in Religione Fideque Christiana consentire Sensu Theologicô dicuntur, qui in omnibus à Deo ad Fidem & Salutem dictis necessariis consentiunt; Necessaria autem nec alia, nec plura, nec pauciora arbitrantur, quàm quae DEus talia in verbo suo jussit esse. E contrario, isti Fundamentaliter dissentiunt, qui vel in Necessariis Fidei & Salutis, à DEO sic dictis, discrepant, negando vel omnia, vel quaedam eorum, idque, vel quà Veritatem, vel quà Necessitatem; vel praeter Necessaria Divina, alia, citra verbum DEi, ceu talia, cudunt obtruduntque. Horum Dissensuum prior Juris magis est; posterior magis Facti. Priori modô Fundamentaliter dissentiunt à Protestantibus Sociniani; Posteriori ab iisdem Pontificii: Protestantes verò, seu Evangelici, Fundamentaliter inter se convenire intelliguntur utrôque modô, excipiendis tamen Protestantibus iis, qui Dogmata quaedam, sibi domestica, neque in Scriptura Sacra, vel quoad Veritatem, nedum Necessitatem, fundata, Necessaria nihilominus urgent, & talia abnuentes à se separant damnantque, eô ipsô, Fundamento, si non Fidei, strictè sic dictae, seu Theoriae Christianae, Charitatis tamen, seu Praxeos (quae Religioni Christianae, adeoque Fidei Christianae latius dictae, pars altera est) excidentes.

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