Unlikely that any properly divine authentic writing truly perished
We also doubt the premise: it is not likely any properly divine, authentic writing has truly vanished.
Providence is injured if God had a book written only to let it vanish useless to the Church.
Among books providence did keep, some are tiny and of no obvious necessity — so why invent larger lost equals?
Rome, which credits the Church with ἀδιαπτωσία and exalts her, still shames her if she let many God-given norm-books perish through neglect.
Latin
IV. Attamen nobis non est probabile ullum scriptum proprie divinum & authenticum periisse. Nec enim id videtur statui posse absque magna providentiae divinae injuria. Ad quid enim Deus curasset librum aliquem divinum & authenticum scribi, ut tamen Ecclesiae nulli usui foret, sed statim Deus illum intercidere pateretur? Cumque inter eos Scripturae sacrae libros, quos divina providentia mirabiliter huc usque conservavit, reperiantur quidam exigui valde, & quorum non magna potest videri necessitas, quis in animum inducere poterit Deum fuisse passurum, ut perirent tot libri non minoris authoritatis, quique tales finguntur ut istos magnitudine, momento, numero & usu superarint? Adde quod Pontificii qui ἀδιαπτωσίαν Ecclesiae tribuunt, & supra modum illius authoritatem extollunt, non levem tamen hac in re illi contumeliam faciunt, & ignominiam inurunt. Quis enim posset tantam in Ecclesia culpam & negligentiam excusare, ut libros divinitus conscriptos, & ipsi datos, ut per eos instrueretur in doctrina salutis, illisque uteretur tanquam fidei norma, & regula veritatis, ut tales, inquam, libros, eosque multos, interire sivisset, nec ea, qua par erat cura, custodivisset?
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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