Reply: only faith-and-salvation necessities were written — Antichrist's hour is not one
We never claimed every apostolic sentence is in the canon — only all needful to faith and salvation.
Nothing of that saving kind stayed oral-only.
Private revelations to some need not bind the whole church or reach parchment.
Antichrist's clock, if Paul knew it, is that private kind — Rome will not call the hour salvific.
Latin
XVIII. Respondeo primo, nos non dicere omnia & singula quae dixit Apostolus scripto mandata esse, sed duntaxat omnia quae necessaria sunt ad fidem & salutem. Hujus generis nihil ab Apostolo viva voce traditum & praedicatum fuit quod in sacris literis scriptum non reperiatur. At dicere nolumus Apostolum non communicasse cum quibusdam singulares quasdam revelationes, quae ad communem totius Ecclesiae salutem non spectant, quae quidem revelationes postea scriptae non fuerint. Quod si Paulus habuit ex peculiari revelatione quando venturus erat Antichristus, illudque docuit Thessalonicenses, certe hoc non ad prius illud genus, sed ad posterius pertinet. Nec enim, puto, dicent ipsi Pontificii rem esse quae sit ad salutem necessaria scire tempus & horam adventus Antichristi.
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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