So the controversy is not Church alone versus the Spirit alone
From all this it is clear that those have missed the mark of this controversy who state the question as: Do we believe Scripture on the Church's testimony alone, or chiefly on the inward testimony of the Holy Spirit? — as if Rome wholly rejected and hissed out that inward Spirit-testimony.
And on the other side the Pontificii wrong us when they harry our people as boasters of a private Spirit, gaping after enthusiasms. On the Spirit's secret testimony we teach nothing beyond what they themselves grant. Nor does that testimony cancel, as they falsely charge, the need of the Church's ministry to propose and explain what belongs to faith — as the previous disputation has already shown at length.
Latin
XIII. Ex his vero manifestum est eos non attigisse hujus controversiae scopum qui quaestionis statum sic explicant. An, scilicet, Scripturae credamus propter Ecclesiae solum testimonium: an vero praecipue, propter testimonium internum Spiritus sancti: quasi Ecclesia Romana internum illud Spiritus sancti testimonium prorsus rejiceret et exsibilaret. Et vice versa nobis injurios esse Pontificios qui nostros exagitant, quasi privatum jactantes Spiritum, et enthusiasmis quibusdam inhiantes. Etenim de Spiritus arcano testimonio non docemus aliud quicquam quam quod ipsi fatentur et docent. Nec per istud testimonium excludimus, ut nobis calumniose objiciunt, necessitatem ministerii Ecclesiastici in proponendis atque exponendis iis quae pertinent ad fidem, ut superiori disputatione abunde docuimus.
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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