Reply: internal inspiration is a stronger writing mandate than vocal order
Agreed: they would not make writings the rule of faith without a divine mandate.
Denied: that they lacked one — Augustine says Christ ordered the Apostles to write what we should read.
Even without a spoken 'Write!', inspiration and the Spirit's extraordinary impulse are the stronger command.
2 Tim. 3: all Scripture is God-breathed — once that stands, a further vocal warrant is needless.
Latin
XI. Respondeo, verum est Apostolos non fuisse aggressuros summam Evangelicae doctrinae scripto complecti, scriptaque sua Ecclesiae tradere, tanquam fidei normam & regulam, nisi ex divino mandato: Sed eos nullum tale mandatum habuisse falsum est. Id ex Augustino poterant adversarii discere. Nam Augustini verba sunt lib. 1. de consensu Evangelistarum cap. ult. Quicquid Christus de suis dictis & factis nos legere voluit, hoc scribendum Apostolis tanquam suis manibus imperavit. Fieri quidem potest, ut Christus viva voce & expressis verbis istud non praeceperit: Sed dubium esse non potest, nec negare audent ipsi Pontificii, quin ad hoc fuerint a Deo inspirati, & a Spiritu sancto moti extra ordinem. Quod enim Petrus dicit de scriptis propheticis, non voluntate humana allatam olim prophetiam, sed actos fuisse a Spiritu sancto sanctos Dei homines, non minus verum est de scriptis Novi Testamenti. Atque, ut docet Apostolus 2. Tim. 3. Omnis Scriptura, seu Veteris, seu Novi Testamenti, divinitus inspirata est. Itaque Apostoli forte non habuerint externum & vocale scribendi mandatum: At certe mandatum internum habuerunt, eoque fuerunt adducti extraordinario quodam impulsu Spiritus divini, quod est omni mandato fortius. Nec video, ubi constat de divina inspiratione, cur praeterea mandatum externum requiratur.
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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