Annotatio V §.IV: Reformed impugn Oral’s Fundamentalitatem still more; Anti-Irenicum stretch §§XI–XXIII
The Reformed impugn Oral not only as to truth but still more as to the Fundamentalitatem hung on it for Christian faith.
Strimesius’s Irenic tract answered the Author’s Anti-Irenic reasons for that fundamentality (§§XI, XIII–XXIII); he now touches them concisely — reading the Author less as serious dispute than as coaching a Respondent how to shout down clear truth for an older hypothesis.
Latin
Cæterùm Reformati, sicuti Mand. corp. Christi Oralem, quà Veritatem, meritò impugnant, ita adhuc magis, quà affictam eidem fidei Christianæ Fundamentalitatem. Ipsum hoc cùm & ego in Tractatulo meo Irenico facere instituissem, rationes etiam pro Fundamentalitate Oralis Manducationis ab Autore, in Anti-Irenico quodam Scripto, excogitatas, diluissem, Autor & meas rationes evertere, & suas ab exceptionibus vindicare omni ope annititur. Ab eo, hoc nomine, Paragraphis XI. XIII. ad XXIII. inclusive, in medium adducta, pro angustioribus Annotationis nostræ cancellis, tantò concisiùs perstringere nobis animus est, quantò ex allatis ab eodem persuasi firmiùs sumus, non tàm disputare eum seriò, quàm Respondentem suum instruere voluisse, quô pactô veritati etiam clarissimæ quandoque obstrepere, quóve Contradictionis velô eandem involvere atque obducere haud adeo multùm verecundandum sit, si quando id ex usu hypotheseos cujusdam antiquioris, Disputanti, fideique suæ sociis receptæ, advertitur futurum.