Estius: explicit faith of life-necessary articles and publicly taught dogmas
Estius: every Christian owes distinct explicit faith to articles whose distinct cognition is needed to order life rightly.
Dogmas publicly obvious in church teaching — by preaching, feasts, ceremonies — must be held explicitly by all not justly hindered from hearing them, especially where the Church presses hard against grave heresies (Sent. 3 Dist. 25 q. 2).
Latin
XXXII. Estius vero propositam quaestionem solvit his verbis: Sane dicendum videtur in primis unumquemque Christianum teneri ad distinctam seu explicitam fidem eorum articulorum, quorum distincta cognitio ad vitam recte instituendam est necessaria. Deinde ea fidei dogmata quae publice sunt satis obvia in Ecclesiastica doctrina, sive per praedicationem Pastorum, sive per frequentationem festorum, & usum ceremoniarum, explicite tenenda sunt omnibus iis qui justa ratione non impediuntur, quominus ea sic publice in Ecclesia proponi atque doceri videant, audiant & intelligant; eoque magis quo circa talia docenda major versatur Ecclesiae cura. Cujusmodi fere sunt quae diligentius inculcari solent contra graves haereses. In libr. 3. Sent. Dist. 25. q. 2.
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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