Historical and polity traditions admitted — none for faith dogmas or morals

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We do not wholly despise or reject unwritten traditions about historical matters and the Churches' rites, order, and polity.

But we admit none for the dogmas of faith, or for what belongs to morals. What the Spirit did not judge needful to put in writing through his amanuenses the Apostles and Evangelists cannot be known by us with equal certainty, or hold equal authority in the Church, as what he willed to consign in writing to have the force of an eternal law there.

Latin

XXXVIII. Itaque non omnino quidem contemnimus, & rejicimus traditiones non scriptas circa res historicas, & Ecclesiarum ritus, ordinem, atque politiam: sed tamen nullas admittimus circa fidei dogmata, & ea quae ad mores pertinent. Neque putamus illa quae Spiritus non judicavit opus esse scripto mandari per suos amanuenses Apostolos & Evangelistas, tanta certitudine a nobis sciri posse, aut eandem authoritatem in Ecclesia habere, ac illa quae scriptis voluit consignari, ut aeternae legis vim in Ecclesia haberent.

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)
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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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