Controversy stated: first external rule — Scripture, or present pastors?
From all this the controversy between us and the Roman Church's doctors is plain enough. Is Scripture the first rule of faith and the first external principle of faith — so that no other principle can prove it, and it does not borrow its authority from elsewhere?
Or is the Church's doctrine and testimony the principle and rule of faith, better known and clearer to us than Scripture itself, and the means by which Scripture must be proved so that believers may publicly settle its standing? We assert the former. The Pontificii assert the latter — and by "Church," as already said, they mean the present pastors, above all the Roman Pontiff.
Latin
XXVI. Ex quibus satis liquere putamus quaenam hic nobis intercedat cum Ecclesiae Romanae Doctoribus controversia. Nempe haec, utrum Scriptura sit prima fidei regula, et primum fidei principium externum, quod proinde alio nullo principio probari possit, nec aliunde suam mutuetur authoritatem. An vero Ecclesiae doctrina et testimonium sit principium et regula fidei, Scriptura ipsa quoad nos notior et evidentior, et qua Scripturam probari necesse sit, ut publice de ea apud fideles constet: Prius nos asserimus: Posterius Pontificii, qui per Ecclesiam, ut modo dictum est, intelligunt praesentis Ecclesiae Pastores, et praecipue Pontificem Romanum.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
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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