Rome: you cannot prove from Scripture that Scripture alone is enough
Last objection: you claim Scripture holds all needful to faith and salvation — and no unwritten word of God.
Rome: that claim itself cannot be proved from Scripture; the usual texts are answerable.
Answer: the thesis is solidly from Scripture; earlier theses already undercut unwritten tradition and assert Scripture perfection.
Our theologians bring still more proofs and clear the exceptions.
Latin
XLIX. Superest ut unum adhuc Argumentum solvamus. Nam credere nos profitemur, & studiose asserimus Scripturam sacram continere omnia quae sunt ad fidem & salutem necessaria, & nullum esse Dei verbum non scriptum. At, inquiunt, hoc ipsum ex Scriptura probari non potest. Etenim istud non convincunt Scripturae loca quae in hanc rem proferuntur, & argumenta ex iis deducta facile solvi possunt. Respondeo veritatem quam hic tuemur posse ex ipsa Scriptura solide probari, & thesibus praecedentibus ex Scripturis eruta & vindicata fuisse argumenta quibus infirmatur traditionis non scriptae authoritas, & asseritur Scripturae perfectio & sufficientia, & alia plurima proferri a Theologis nostris, & ab adversariorum exceptionibus vindicari.
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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