A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §368 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio II §.II close: Subtilior coexistence; Kronmayer/Suicer; Becanus — any consub kills proper predication; stop before §.III

Subtler Consubstantiation: bread and Christ’s body coexist in the Supper with an exterior, παραστατική union — substantial/corporal/local materially as to the things united, not formally as to union-mode; each keeps its own place.

Lutherans own the definition and the name Consubstantiation / συνουσία (Kronmayer; Bayer) — yet Suicer would call them ἐνουσιάσται, not συνουσιάσται.

Becanus’s sharper point: grant any Consubstantiation, even the Lutheran subtler kind, and proper predication of Christ’s words has nowhere left to stand.

Stop before §.III (history: conception / nativity / duration).

Latin

Posterior, seu Subtilis Consubstantiatio, solam dicit duarum Substantiarum, panis scil. & Corporis Christi in S. Coena Coëxistentiam Unionemque quandam exteriorem, ac παραστατικήν, dicendam equidem Substantialem, Corporalem, Localem, at non Formaliter, seu quoad Unionis modum, sed solum Materialiter & quoad ipsa Unienda, quae omnino Substantiae & quidem Corporeae sunt, indeque porrò suum quaelibet locum proprium, localitatemque intrinsecam, obtinent. Hujus Definitionem, seu essentiales conceptus jamjam nominatos, cùm Lutherani nulli dubitaverint suos facere, etiam Definitum sive latino Consubstantiationis, sive graeco συνουσίας termino expressum, facilè admiserint, uti colligere datur ex Kronmayeri Theol. Posit. p. 703. & 714. & Bayeri Dissert. de Impanatione p. 31. quanquam ab admisso Definito hoc, nulla Synusiastas eos appellandi justa procedat consequentia, nec diffitendum sit, si genuinum & patristicum συνουσίας & συνουσιαστῶν usum sequaris, Lutheranos non συνουσιάστας, sed ἐνουσιάστας rectius appellari, sic merito monente Suicero, Thesaur. Eccles. p. 1183. & 1184.; Justius verò Becanus cit. a pag. 331. inferat, datâ Consubstantiatione quacunque, etiam Lutherana tantum, & subtiliori, propriae praedicationi verborum Christi locum ampliùs nullum relinqui.

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