There is plainly no dissensus on true substantial presence of body and blood in the Supper, offered to all communicants.
Nor on true real eating and drinking that is spiritual and supernatural — and all the more true and real.
Latin Quia Dissensus planè nullus est de vera & substantiali corporis & sanguinis Christi præsentia in Sacra Cœna, Communicantibus omnibus oblata, itemque de vera & reali, at spirituali & supernaturali, eóque tantò veriori & realiori corporis Christi Manducatione Sanguinísque Bibitione.
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About this text Strimesius wrote in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as Reformed doctor of theology and primary preacher in the church and university at Frankfurt an der Oder (Viadrina). This is not a patristic work. The 1708 Schrey & Hartmann Latin is public domain.
Samuel Strimesius, a candid inquiry into the controversies among evangelicals: the preface and selected controversies and notes, from the 1708 Latin. The rest is not yet translated.
Samuel Strimesius (1648–1730), born at Königsberg, taught philosophy and then theology at Frankfurt an der Oder and pastored its Reformed congregation; Oxford made him doctor of divinity in 1709.
The Candid Examination of the Gospel Controversies (Frankfurt, 1708) defends the Reformed claim to stand within the Augsburg Confession's legacy, then works through the Lord's Supper disputes with the Lutherans controversy by controversy.
This volume holds the opening stretch: preface, preliminary defenses, Part I, and the post-Luther controversies.
Part only: The preface and selected controversies
Date 1708 AD (Frankfurt an der Oder; Reformed Viadrina faculty)
English follows the 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only.
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