A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §554 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio IV §.XIII: Charles the Bald commissions Bertram and Erigena on Lord’s body and blood

Mid-century: CHARLES THE BALD, eager for Evangelical truth on the Eucharist, ordered Bertram the Presbyter and Erigena the Scot to write treatises on the Lord’s body and blood.

Bertram’s still circulates among the learned — Strimesius draws propositions that illustrate the Eucharistic truth.

Latin

Procedente Seculô & ad medium sui assurgente, Caroli M. Nepos, initiô Rex Franciæ, mox Imperator quoque sat inclitus, CAROLUS CALVUS, veritatis Evangelicæ, etiam in doctrina de Eucharistia percupidus, tum Bertramo Presbytero, tùm Erigena Scoto, de corpore & sanguine Domini Tractatus scribere jussit, ex quorum priori, cum adhuc in manibus eruditorum versetur, quasdam propositiones veritatem Eucharisticam illustraturas, hic adduxisse operæ pretium ducimus.

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