A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §311 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio VI §.III open: If Lutherans dropped acerbic mode or swapped damnations for bare rejections

§. III. If today’s named Lutherans would drop this harsher way of handling controversies — or at least trade their damnations (not unlike Tridentine anathematisms) for bare rejections of opinions they judge false —

then even if those opinions may perish on their own view, the authors and favorers of them (erring, if at all, in good faith) are above all to be saved, and spiritual fraternity is to be kept with them.

Latin

§. III. Acerbiorem hunc Controversias tractandi modum si facessere juberent hodieque nominati Lutherani, vel saltem Damnationes suas, Anathematismis Tridentinis haud absimiles, in Rejectiones nudas falsarum sibi ita visarum Opinionum commutarent, quibus licèt, juxta se, perituris aliquando, Autores tamen Fautoresque earum (utpote, si omnino, certè bonâ fide errantes) salvandi sint maximè & cum his Fraternitatem Spiritualem colendi,

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