A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §97 · Samuel Strimesius

Do not reproach us for party names we suffer unwillingly — remember your own labels

Nor may they cast our quarrels — or the contentious nicknames we suffer against our will and do not freely borrow from masters as if those men were demigods — more bitterly in our teeth.

Let them mind the knapsack on their own back. Let them remember the party names among themselves, and the writings that truly brand men in public, in the fights over the Lord's Supper after the Confession was amended, over predestination, ubiquity, the Formula of Concord, the communication of properties, that mode of conversion or justification, the necessity of works, the adiaphora, and the Interim — and the rest.

Hence the names common among them, so often run through with shafts or struck by anathema: Philippists, Synergists, Flacians, Brentio-Flacians, Heshusians, Formulists, Hoffmannians, Osiandrists, Majorists, Adiaphorists, Hessian-Calvinists or Zwinglians, adherents of the Variata or of the Invariata Confession, and so on.

Here Controv. XV on mutual tolerance closes before the Hexades Annotationum on Spanheim's Protheoria.

Latin

Nec est quod nostras nobis dissensiones, aut contentiosas ἐπωνυμίας, quas inviti patimur, non ultrò à Magistris, quasi Theandris, mutuamur, invidiosius exprobrent. Viderint illi manticae quod in tergo est, ac meminerint ἐπωνυμιῶν inter suos ac scriptionum verè στηλιτευτικῶν, in causis, de Coena Domini, post emendatam Confessionem, de Praedestinatione, de Ubiquitate, de Formula Concordiae, de Communicatione Idiomatum, de Modo Conversionis, aut Justificationis illo, de Operum necessitate, de Adiaphoris & Libro Interim, &c. Undè obvia inter illos Nomina, tot quandoque telis transfixa, aut anathematis percussa, Ex gr. Philippistarum, Synergistarum, Flaccianorum, Brentio-Flaccianorum, Heshusianorum, Formulistarum, Hoffmannianorum, Osiandristarum, Majoristarum, Adiaphoristarum, Hasso-Calvinistarum vel Zwinglianorum, Variatae vel Invariatae Confessioni adhaerentium, &c.

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