The celebrated question: is Scripture's authority supreme or borrowed?
From this rises the famous question on Scripture's authority. We say Scripture's authority among us is supreme, not borrowed from elsewhere: above itself Scripture has no revelation, and no other principle of faith by which it can be proved.
The Pontificii say Scripture's authority hangs on the Church's: they take the Church's testimony for a principle of faith above Scripture, one by which Scripture must be proved so that the Church may publicly settle its standing.
Latin
XXIV. Atque inde exurgit celebris illa quaestio de Scripturae authoritate. Nobis asserentibus Scripturae authoritatem apud nos esse summam, nec aliunde mutuam sumptam; quoniam Scriptura supra se nullam habet revelationem, aut aliud quoddam fidei principium quo probari possit. Pontificiis vero contendentibus authoritatem Scripturae ab authoritate Ecclesiae pendere: quoniam existimant Ecclesiae testimonium fidei quoddam principium esse Scriptura superius, et quo Scriptura probari indigeat, ut de ea publice in Ecclesia constet.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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