Annotatio VI §.II: Triple difference — nude confictae, adiaphora, and real heads (German Einigkeit tract)
Our author therefore sorts this class into a threefold difference.
Some items are bare fabrications — questions of fact, not of right — that never entered any Reformer’s mind (Is God the author of sin? Is He omnipotent in bodily supper-presence? Is He merciful in the doctrine of grace?).
Others are lesser adiaphorous rites, where Lutherans would easily find the Reformed compliant.
Others again are more real and touch the three principal heads (see our German Short Sketch of Unity, §.XIII ff.).
Latin
Ut inde Autori nostro haec controversiarum Classis, in triplici differentia jure collocetur, quarum aliae nude confictae sint, quaestiones facti, non juris, quales Reformatorum nemini unquam in mentem venerunt, e. gr. Num Deus sit Autor Peccati? in Capite de Providentia Dei; Num omnipotens? in Capite de Praesentia Corporali in Coena; Num misericors? in doctrina de gratia, &c. Aliae minoris momenti, de ritibus & ceremoniis adiaphoris, in quibus facile Reformatos haberent obsequentes Lutherani: Aliae denique reales magis, ad tria dicta Capita Principalia pertinentes. Conf. in Annot. preced. cit. Tractatulum nost. Germanicum, Kurzer Entwurff der Einigkeit der Evangelisch-Lutherischen und Reformirten §.XIII. & seqq.