A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §305 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.II open: Posterior Class authors — Brenz, Andreae, Hunnius; Flacius mode; Formula of Concord swearers

§. II. The posterior class has, on the most contentious issues, Brenz on the ubiquity or omnipresence of Christ’s body, al manducation of that body added on top, and Hunnius on predestination from foreseen faith.

For the harsher style of fight it has Flacius Illyricus’s disciples — a most restless ingenuity.

In a word: those who (if not all, then most) bind themselves to the Formula of Concord’s words — even the damnatory ones — as tightly as to Holy Scripture itself.

Latin

§. II. Posterior Controversiarum Classis Autores ac disputatores habet, quà res maximè controversas, Joh. Brentii, ubiquitatis seu omnipraesentiae Corporis Christi; Jac. Andreae, oralis hujus Corporis manducationis superadditae, & Aegidii Hunnii, Praedestinationis ex praevisa Fide, praecipuorum ac famosissimorum Doctorum; quà modum autem controvertendi acerbiorem, Flacii Illyrici, inquietissimi hominis Ingenii, Discipulos: Verbô unô, eos, qui si non omnes, certè quàm plurimi, in verba Formulae Concordiae, etiam damnatoria, non minus, re ipsâ, quàm in verba ipsius Scripturae S. sibi jurandum ducunt.

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