Annotatio I §.IV open SPECIFICA: Testimonies acknowledging impropriety — Fathers explicit; stop before Picherellus catalog
§. IV. Arguments for the specific nature of the proposition under debate are drawn chiefly from those who acknowledge its impropriety in species — expressly, or implicitly by their interpretations.
EXPLICITLY figurative: the more ancient Church Fathers (collected by Oecolampadius and Melanchthon), the Reformed Jonstonus, and the Pontifician Picherellus (Opusc. Theol. P. 28).
Stop before the Picherellus / Tertullian catalog and further SPECIFICA testimonies.
Latin
§. IV.
Argumenta, specificam propositionis, de qua adhuc disquiritur, naturam attingentia, istorum potissimum testimoniis conficiuntur, qui improprietatem ejus in specie, vel disertè atque explicitè, vel per interpretationes suas, sicque implicite, agnoscunt ac confitentur. EXPLICITE figuratam statuunt (1) PATRES ECCLESIAE ANTIQUIORES, quorum testimonia summâ industriâ collegit ex primis Reformatoribus Oecolampadius, in Dialogo, Melanchton, in consilio Epistolico, ad Fridericum Palatinum misso; Ex recentioribus Johannes Jonstonus Reformatus Syntag. de Commun. veteris Ecclesiae cap. 3. art. 3. §. 3. à pag. mihi 86. ad pag. 100. Et Petrus Picherellus Pontificius Opuscul. Theol. p. 28.