A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §271 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio V §.II open: What sets just bounds — Fundamental faith-dogmas, not every Christian truth

§. II. What sets just bounds for church consociation is not every Christian truth whatever, but the Fundamental dogmas of the Christian faith (described in Annotation 2).

That such fundamentals exist, distinct from less fundamental dogmas, has been shown elsewhere — by our Author’s Tract on Fundamentals (Disp. 1–2) and his Specimen against the Bishop of Condom (pp. 63–70), and by us in the Dissertation on Church Peace (ch. 7) and the Inquiry into the Arminians (Annot. 17) —

and all Protestants reckon the same way, even against the Roman party,

Latin

§. II. Res Consociationem Ecclesiasticam limitantes, seu justos ei terminos figentes, non sunt Veritates Christianae quaecunque, sed Fundamentales, seu Fundamentalia Fidei Christianae dogmata, Annot. 2dâ descripta. Talia dari, ab aliis scilicet Fidei Christianae dogmatibus minùs fundamentalibus diversa, hisque contradistinguenda, probatum alibi, tùm ab Autore nostro Tract. de Fundamentalibus, Disp. 1. & 2. itemque Specim. Strict. contra Episcop. Condomiensem a. p. 63. ad 70. tùm à nobis, Dissert. de Pace Eccles. Cap. 7. & in Inquisit. in Arminianis. Annot. 17. omniumque Protestantium calculô confirmatum, etiam adversus Pontificios,

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