Salvation does not require knowing every canonical book; reception may still be immediate
It is not necessary for anyone's salvation to receive and acknowledge every book of Scripture and every part of them.
So it is no wonder if all who have received the spirit of faith and revelation, even in some measure, still miss certain parts of Scripture — taking a truly divine book for human, or conversely taking a mere product of human wit for something written by divine inspiration.
It is plainly unjust, and against reason, to demand that any ordinary believer be able at once by himself to tell any scrap of a Canonical book from a scrap of an Apocryphal one. Salvation does not require that.
Yet it does not follow that those who embrace books some have rejected or not known, and take them on faith, do so only through the Church's testimony and authority as faith's foundation, and not immediately by the Spirit's inward testimony and illumination — with which they have been given a greater supply in this part.
Latin
XIII. Jam autem ad salutem cujusque non est necessarium ut singulos Scripturae libros, et singulas eorum partes recipiat et agnoscat. Itaque non mirum est si omnes qui spiritum fidei et revelationis, aliquo saltem gradu, acceperunt, ignorent tamen quasdam Scripturae partes, et in eo fallantur quod aliquem librum, qui vere divinus est, humanum esse opinentur: Et vicissim librum aliquem, qui tantum est foetus ingenii humani, divinitus conscriptum existiment. Ac plane injustum est, et contra rationem a simplici quovis fideli exigere ut per se statim internoscere possit quamvis Canonici libri particulam a portiuncula libri Apocryphi. Nec enim ad ejus salutem hoc requiritur. Inde tamen non sequitur eos qui libros istos a quibusdam rejectos, aut ignotos amplectuntur, et fide suscipiunt, eos inquam istud non facere immediate per testimonium et illuminationem internam Spiritus sancti, quo majore hac in parte copia donati sunt, sed mediante Ecclesiae testimonio et authoritate, tanquam fidei suae fundamento.
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.