Retorsion: Rome's faithful cannot better tell true councils from false than our people tell canon from apocrypha
Plenty of people Rome itself counts as true believers are no better at spotting a forged church-testimony, an unlawful council, or adulterated canons than our ordinary hearers are at spotting Apocrypha next to Canon.
Even their own learned men quarrel over whether some councils bind, and they do not settle the question among themselves.
Still they insist their church's teaching and witness is faith's supreme rule, depending on no higher authority, and that the faithful must submit to it at once under the Spirit's impulse.
Latin
XIV. Et certe multi, quos Ecclesia Romana pro vere fidelibus habet, non magis possunt per se dignoscere germanum Ecclesiae suae testimonium a supposititio, verumque et legitimum Concilium ab illegitimo, et Canones veros ab adulterinis, quam fideles e plebe nostra particulam libri Canonici a particula Apocryphi. Atque etiam viri in ea Ecclesia docti de quorundam suorum Conciliorum authoritate disputant, nec satis inter se consentiunt an legitima sint an secus. Et tamen illi tuentur Ecclesiae suae doctrinam et testimonium esse supremam fidei regulam, cujus authoritas a nulla superiori authoritate pendet, et cui se fideles immediate subjicere debent, a Spiritu sancto moti atque impulsi.
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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