Annotatio I §.I: Not priority of Dignity or Order (Sennert) — but of Time and Acerbitas
They are not “prior” by dignity — as if they alone were some fundamental article of the faith, or the chief matter Protestants hammer out among themselves.
Nor by order — as if a methodical theological system would have to put them first.
Even some Lutherans deprecate those kinds of priority (Sennert, Exercises on fundamental articles §§. 64–65, fasc. Pp. 430–431).
Latin
Scilicet priores audiunt, non prioritate Dignitatis, quòd fundamentalem quendam fidei Christianae articulum, aut principalem istorum concernunt qui sub disputationes incudem à Protestantibus, & inter se, revocantur; nec Prioritate Ordinis, quòd in Methodica, id est, juxta naturalem Systematis Theologici methodum disposita Controversiarum Protestanticarum tractatione, primum locum mererentur. Has enim prioritatis species vel Lutheranorum nonnulli deprecabuntur, per rationes plurimas ab And. Sennerto in unum collectas, Exerc. Theol. de articulis fid. fundamentalibus §. 64. & 65. p. Fasciculi exercitationum ejus 430. & 431.