A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §252 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.I: External obstacles — Devil’s instincts and arts; neither over-blame nor exempt him

The external sort fall under the Devil’s varied instincts, tricks, and wicked arts — he being the first parent of lies, quarrels, and slanders.

We must neither exaggerate with the crowd that dumps nearly every misdeed on the Devil, nor, with the author of this fascinated world, exempt him from the community of human things and deeds.

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Priores variis Diaboli, mendaciorum, rixarum ac calumniarum parentis primi instinctibus, technis artibusque nefariis comprehenduntur, uti neutiquam cum vulgo, omnia propemodum malefacta sua horumque culpam in Diabolum transferre solito, supramodum exaggerandis, ita neque cum fascinati Mundi Autore vel rerum vel actionum humanarum Communitate eximendis:

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Samuel Strimesius, a candid inquiry into the controversies among evangelicals: the preface and selected controversies and notes, from the 1708 Latin. The rest is not yet translated.

Samuel Strimesius (1648–1730), born at Königsberg, taught philosophy and then theology at Frankfurt an der Oder and pastored its Reformed congregation; Oxford made him doctor of divinity in 1709.

The Candid Examination of the Gospel Controversies (Frankfurt, 1708) defends the Reformed claim to stand within the Augsburg Confession's legacy, then works through the Lord's Supper disputes with the Lutherans controversy by controversy.

This volume holds the opening stretch: preface, preliminary defenses, Part I, and the post-Luther controversies.

Part only: The preface and selected controversies

Date1708 AD (Frankfurt an der Oder; Reformed Viadrina faculty)

English follows the 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. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only.

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Translated from Latin, Prefatio section I (Schrey & Hartmann 1708) (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Prefatio Crimina defenses pages 44-56 (Latin)
Translated from Latin, Crimina II rem + Crimina III + Cassel Art. (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Prefatio Crimina II – III pages 57-75 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Prefatio Crimina II – III pages 56-75 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Part I Protheoria body pages 102-120 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Part I Protheoria body pages 114-120 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Part I Protheoria body pages 102-120 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Part I Protheoria pages 121-127 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Part I Protheoria pages 121-127 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Part I Protheoria pages 126-135 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Part I Protheoria pages 126-135 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Coena Domini pages 134-141 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Coena Domini pages 134-141 (Latin)
Translated from Latin, Post Lutherum Providentia Controv. (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Post Lutherum pages 141-155 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Post Lutherum pages 141-144 (Latin)
Translated from Latin, Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Hexades Prooemium PDF pages 179-186 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Hexades Prooemium pages 182-186 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Hexades Annotatio I PDF pages 186-198 (Latin)
Also checked Tesseract Hexades Annotatio I pages 186-193 (Latin)
Also checked pdftotext Hexades Annotatio I PDF pages 192-205 (Latin)

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