Reply: tradition is as silent — lost-tradition retorsion mirrors the lost-books attack
If the silence proves Scripture incomplete, it equally proves Scripture-plus-tradition incomplete — tradition is silent too.
Let Rome name the Old-Testament remedy for women and for boys who died before day eight from her unwritten word.
If she says the tradition perished, her own lost-books attack against the Canon rebounds on her.
One could as easily stash the missing remedy in the prophetic books she claims are gone.
Latin
XVII. Respondeo illo argumento, si aliquid virium habet, posse probari non tantum Scripturam non continere omnia scitu necessaria, sed totam fidei doctrinam non posse sufficienter hauriri ex Scriptura sacra & traditione non scripta simul sumptis. Etenim hic non minus tacet traditio & verbum non scriptum quam Scriptura sacra. Alioqui depromant nobis Pontificii ex traditione sua quodnam fuerit illud remedium peccati originalis sub Veteri Testamento in foeminis & masculis morientibus ante octavum diem. Quod si dicant traditionem illam intercidisse, retorquebitur in illos argumentum istud quo probare nituntur Scripturam sacram non esse sufficientem fidei regulam, quoniam, ut putant, quidam Scripturae libri perierunt. Et pari facilitate poterit dici hoc fuisse contentum in quodam ex istis libris propheticis quos interiisse contendunt.
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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