Roman doctors — Scripture not given as sole rule; Bellarmine on Augustine
We turn next to the Roman doctors on this question.
First they teach that Scripture was not given so the Church would have it as the sole rule of faith, or so that religion's institutes and the dogmas of faith would have to be sought from it alone. So not everything that belongs to faith and morals need be proved from sacred Scripture.
They do not deny that what is simply necessary to each person's salvation is found in Scripture — see Bellarmine, De verbo Dei 4.11 (last section). Answering Augustine's line our side cites (In what is openly set down in Scripture are found all things that contain faith and the way of life), he limits it to dogmas simply necessary for all, such as the Apostles' Creed and the Decalogue, and presses Augustine's further point about ignorance that would cost promised salvation.
Latin
V. Sequitur jam ut exquiramus quae sit de hac quaestione Doctorum Ecclesiae Romanae sententia. Primo igitur docent, Scripturam non esse datam Ecclesiae in hunc finem, ut esset unica fidei regula, atque ut ex ea sola religionis instituta & fidei dogmata peti & erui deberent. Itaque non esse necesse, ut omnia quae pertinent ad fidem atque mores, ex Scriptura sacra probentur. Non negant tamen illa, quae ad salutem singulis simpliciter necessaria sunt, in Scriptura sacra reperiri, ut videre est apud Bellarminum, De verbo Dei lib. 4. cap. 11. §. ultimo. Ubi respondens ad illud Augustini quod a nostris pro sua sententia afferri solet, In his quae aperte posita sunt inquit, Scriptura inveniri illa omnia quae continent fidem moresque vivendi. Limitat, inquit, de illis dogmatibus quae necessaria sunt omnibus simpliciter, qualia sunt quae habentur in Symbolo Apostolico, & in Decalogo. Et in sequentibus probat illud ejusdem Augustini, Credo quod etiam hinc divinorum eloquiorum clarissima authoritas esset, si homo illud sine dispendio promissae salutis ignorare non posset.
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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