Annotatio V §.II Ratiocinative close: Church members who keep essentials — even amid many non-overturning errors — stop before §.IV
Just as people with a body and a rational soul still count as human and as members of one society — even when the soul’s force is weak and some bodily members are badly misshapen —
so those who keep the church’s essentials, theoretical and practical, should be counted sharers in the same church Consociation,
even while they wrestle with many errors and sins that do not overturn the Christian religion.
d from the same fundamental principle).
Latin
Sicuti verò hominibus accensentur & societate humana eâdem contineri putantur, qui corpore & animâ rationali praediti sunt, licèt quandoque & animae rationalis vis virtusque exigua perquam, & Corporis membra nonnulla multum deformata inveniantur; ita ejusdem Consociationis Ecclesiasticae participes aestimandi, qui Ecclesiae Christianae essentialia, tàm Theoretica, quam Practica servant, licèt cum erroribus pariter atque peccatis Christianam Religionem haud evertentibus, etiam benè multis, colluctentur.