Summary: Church witness proves Scripture — it is not a higher rule of faith
In short, then: we grant that the sacred books' authority is rightly and validly proved by the Church's consensus and testimony.
We deny what the adversaries infer — that the Church's testimony is a rule of faith better known to us than Scripture itself.
Not every sound proof is taken from a rule and principle of faith, or even from what is simply better known and more certain. Often we must prove the point to the person before us, and a posteriori.
Latin
XLIV. In summa ergo fatemur authoritatem librorum sacrorum per Ecclesiae consensum & testimonium recte & valide probari. Sed negamus tamen inde sequi quod adversarii volunt, nempe Ecclesiae testimonium esse regulam fidei Scriptura ipsa notiorem quoad nos. Non enim omnis bona probatio ex aliqua fidei regula & principio sumitur, nec etiam ex eo quod est simpliciter notius & certius: sed saepe res probare cogimur ad hominem, & a posteriori.
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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