A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §331 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio I §.III: Personal predications no help — Vorstius concrete-of-concrete vs sacramental abstract-of-abstract

Objecting “personal” predications does not help here.

Vorstius notes that in those, a concrete is predicated of a concrete — not an abstract nature of an abstract nature

In our sacramental saying, by contrast, abstract is predicated of abstract: body of bread, hence disparate of disparate.

Latin

Non juvat hôc loco personales objecisse praedicationes, utpote de quibus rectissimè praeceptor olim noster B. Johannes Vorstius, observat, in iis, non rem abstractam de abstracta, seu, quod idem est, disparatam naturam abstractam, de natura itidem disparata abstracta, sed concretum de concreto praedicare, cùm in sacramentali nostra, abstractum de abstracto, corpus de pane, eòque disparatum de disparato, praedicetur.

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