A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §75 · Samuel Strimesius

Melanchthon and many Lutherans deny Suevic ubiquity and put multivolitional presence in its place

Melanchthon, Peucer, Heshusius, Hofmann himself, Chemnitz, Chytraeus, Selnecker, Major, and others joined the Reformed in denying the Suevic ubiquity of Christ's flesh.

So did the Danes, Holsteiners, Brunswickers, Helmstedt men, Anhaltines, Hessians, the Lower-Saxon theologians, and the Nurembergers, long since.

Chemnitz led the way: instead of ubiquity — or πανταχεσία — they put a multivolitional presence.

That means a real κοινωνία or μετοχή of the divine operations in the human nature, so that it is wherever and whenever it wills to be, or can be wherever it wishes — the Hessian reading in their Judgment on the Torgau Formula (1567).

Latin

Sed & Ubiquitatem Suevicam Carnis Christi, cum Reformatis, negarunt Melanchthon, Peucerus, Heshusius, ipse Hofmannus, Chemnitius, Chytraeus, Selneccerus, Major, &c. ac pridem Dani, Holsati, Brunswicenses, Helmstadienses, Anhaltini, Hassi, inferioris Saxoniae Theologi, Norimbergenses, &c. Et, Chemnitio praeeunte, substituerunt loco Ubiquitatis, seu πανταχεσίας, Multivoli-praesentiam; Id est, κοινωνίαν vel μετοχὴν realem Divinarum Operationum in Nat. Humana, qua sit ubicunque vult esse, & quandocunque vult; vel qua possit esse ubicunque velit, ut Hassi in Judicio suo de Formula Torgensi, A. 1567.

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