Contained κατὰ λέξιν or in substance — Trinity proves the point
From the above it is clear what we say Scripture contains. Next: how it contains them.
Dogmas and precepts may stand in a book in two ways — first κατὰ λέξιν, in the same words; second in substance, in equivalent words.
We do not claim every orthodox dogma and life-precept appears in Scripture in so many words. Some modern wranglers pin that on us: because we take up nothing outside Scripture in religion, they demand every sentence we teach be shown syllable by syllable in the text.
For us it is enough that Scripture contain the dogma in substance. Scripture nowhere says the bare words ‘God is one and three’; yet we believe it firmly, because Scripture says what comes to the same — three in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are one — and in many places that God is one, while the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are each God.
Latin
VIII. Igitur quae sint illa, quae Scriptura sacra contineri dicimus, ex dictis manifestum est. Deinceps videndum est, qua ratione & modo ex sententia nostra in Scriptura contineantur. Porro dogmata & praecepta quaedam in aliquo libro possunt contineri duobus modis. Primo quidem κατὰ λέξιν, & iisdem verbis. Secundo in substantia, & verbis aequipollentibus. Nostra autem sententia non est omnia fidei dogmata, atque vitae praecepta quae traduntur ab orthodoxis, totidem verbis in sacra Scriptura reperiri. Istud quidem nobis imputant hodierni quidam vitilitigatores, qui ex eo quod profitemur nihil nos extra Scripturam in religionis negotio suscipere, exigunt ut quaecunque scribimus & docemus, totidem verbis & syllabis in Scriptura sacra ostendamus. Verum nobis sufficit ad credendum aliquod dogma, ut Scriptura sacra illud in substantia contineat. Ita Scriptura Sacra nullibi habet haec verba, Deus est unus & trinus. Et tamen illud certa fide credimus, quin quod eodem recidit Scriptura dicit tres esse in caelo, Patrem, Verbum, & Spiritum, & hos tres unum esse. Et pluribus in locis testatur Deum esse unum, & tamen Patrem esse Deum, Filium esse Deum, & Spiritum sanctum esse Deum.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.