No pope or council carries Scripture's notes of divinity
No pope, council, or gathering of pastors carries so many and so bright marks of its own authority as sacred Scripture carries of its divinity.
Earlier theses already listed what recommends Scripture: prophecies of things to come, the holiness, height, and force of its teaching, the majesty and plainness of its style, the harmony of Old and New Testament, miracles confirming it, the life of those who first handed it down, God's lasting care to keep it, the martyrs' constancy for its truth, the consent of peoples, and even hostile witnesses.
What council, or what crowd of pastors, presses its claim with notes so many and so strong? Ask the adversaries' own conscience: is it not plainer that Moses and Paul wrote divine, authentic books than that Florence, Trent, or the Lateran were legitimate councils led by the Spirit without fail?
Latin
XXVIII. Adde quod nullus Pontifex, nullum Concilium, nullus Pastorum Coetus tot et tam illustres habet suae authoritatis notas et argumenta, quam Scriptura sacra suae divinitatis. Nam Scripturam sacram commendant quamplurima Thesibus praecedentibus a nobis enumerata: Futurorum praedictiones quae in ea habentur, doctrinae quam tradit sanctitas, sublimitas et efficacia, styli majestas atque simplicitas, consensus veteris et novi Testamenti, miracula in ejus confirmationem facta, genus vitae eorum qui primi eam tradiderunt, perpetua Dei cura in ea conservanda, constantia martyrum in veritate illius tuenda, populorum consensus, et ipsorum etiam hostium testimonium. Quodnam vero Concilium, aut quae Pastorum multitudo, tot et tam insignibus authoritatem suam ingerit argumentis? Atque hic appellanda est conscientia adversariorum, annon, scilicet, notius sit scripta Mosis et Pauli divina et authentica esse, quam Concilium Florentinum, Tridentinum, aut Lateranense legitima esse Concilia, et quae Spiritus sancti infallibilem ductum habuerunt.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.