(2.) Lust of the eyes — meaning spiritual lusts of the soul; in a word, excessive curiosity in sacred things, born of ambition — against Romans 12:3 : do not think beyond what you ought, but think unto sobriety.
For the puffed-up man languishes among questions (1 Tim. 6:3–5 ) that a bishop must flee (2 Tim. 2:23–24 ; Titus 3:9 ).
This breeds two evils most hostile to church peace: an extraordinary multiplication of theological dogmas, and an unhealthy doting on novelties.
Latin (2.) Cupiditate oculorum, intellige Spiritualium, seu animae, verbô unô, Curiositate in Sacris nimiâ, ex ambitione ortâ, contra istud Apostoli ad Rom. 12, 3. μὴ ὑπερφρονεῖν παρ’ ὃ δεῖ φρονεῖν ἀλλὰ φρονεῖν εἰς τὸ σωφρονεῖν (nam inflatus languet circa quaestiones. 1. Tim. 6, 3. 4. 5. Episcopo fugiendas, 2. Tim. 2, 23. 24. Tit. III. 9.), duo admodum mala, Paci Ecclesiasticae quam maximè infensa, progeneratura, dogmatum scil. Theologicorum multiplicationem eximiam; & noviter inventorum malesanam deperitionem.
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About this text Strimesius wrote in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as Reformed doctor of theology and primary preacher in the church and university at Frankfurt an der Oder (Viadrina). This is not a patristic work. The 1708 Schrey & Hartmann Latin is public domain.
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
Date 1708 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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