Blinded disputers do not cancel Scripture light for sincere Spirit-led readers
If many dispute the same proofs made every rule useless, no word of God could ever settle heresy.
Prejudice and vain sophisms can darken Scripture for the blinded — that does not cancel its light.
Sincere minds, freed from perverse affections and led by the Spirit, still gather the saving doctrine evidently from Scripture.
They hold firm, undoubted arguments in the text itself.
Latin
XLVIII. Igitur si veritas aliqua dubia redditur, & probatio aliqua infirmatur, quia multi sunt qui lucem istius veritatis, & probationis vim non vident & agnoscunt, sed contra ex iisdem principiis disputant, & utcunque solvunt argumenta ex illis pro veritate adducta, nullum prorsus Dei verbum supererit, unde satis solide possint haeretici confutari, & dogmata fidei probari satis certo atque evidenter. Sed profecto quamvis homines praejudiciis & pravis affectibus ducti & occaecati doctrinam salutarem in Scriptura sacra contentam non videant, & argutiis ac vanis sophismatis tenebras illi offundere conentur, id non obstat, quominus illam ex Scripturis evidenter colligant, & firma ac indubitata illius argumenta se in iis habere certi sint illi qui animo sincero, & mente a praejudiciis & affectibus perversis libera, ac Spiritu sancto duce, & facem praeferente, Scripturae testimonia expendunt, & conferunt ut veritatem in illis inveniant.
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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