A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §282 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio V §.IV: Orthodox self-claim to the Catholic title alone — ridiculous, not even at one with itself

Unless those who today brandish the Orthodox name try — how ridiculously — to claim the Catholic Church’s title for themselves alone, or snatch it without thinking.

They cannot even be reconciled with the kinds among their own people, still less with any individual within those groups — not even with one individual, that is, with none of one with himself —

once you allow for shifts of place, time, and other externals that greatly change internals.

Latin

Nisi fortè, qui Orthodoxorum hodie nomine se jactitant, Catholicae quoque Ecclesiae titulum sibi solis quàm ridiculè vindicare, aut incogitanter ad se rapere attentent, utpote ne cum generibus quidem singulorum suorum, nedum cum singulis generum, quin ne cum uno quidem singulorum i. e. cum nemine ex suis secum ipsô, [admissâ locorum temporum aliorumque externorum, interna plurimùm mutantium, discriminatione ac mutatione] conciliandum.

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