Older scholastics vs today's schools
Among the older scholastics some did restrict that power of deciding Scripture infallibly and with certainty to the Apostolic Church. They taught that it belongs to the present Church only insofar as that Church is counted one body with the Apostolic — as an old man truly did what he did as a boy, though as an old man he can no longer do those same acts.
That was the view of Durandus, of Thomas Netter of Walden, and in the previous age of Driedo. Today that view is commonly judged wrong, and the doctors of the present Roman schools yield to the earlier opinion instead.
So the question is whether from the Church's practice, and from the ancient Fathers' arguments recited above, one may conclude that the pastors who govern the Church in each age have authority so great that it is our rule of faith about Scripture — more certain and better known to us than Scripture itself — and the chief foundation of our faith in sacred Scripture.
That is what we deny. The proofs already brought do nothing to establish it.
Latin
XXXII. Fuerunt quidem inter veteres Scholasticos qui authoritatem illam de Scriptura infallibiliter & certo determinandi ad Apostolicam Ecclesiam restrinxerunt, & docuerunt non alio sensu tribuendam esse Ecclesiae praesenti, quam quia cum Apostolica censetur unum corpus. Et senex revera fecit quae fecit quum esset puer, licet jam senex non possit amplius illa facere. Quae fuit sententia Durandi, & Thomae Waldensis, & etiam superiori saeculo Driedonis. At haec sententia hodie communiter erronea censetur. Et hodierni Scholae Pontificiae Doctores in priorem illam sententiam concedunt. Itaque videndum est, an ex usu & praxi Ecclesiae, & illis priscorum Patrum argumentationibus, quae supra adductae sunt, concludi possit Pastorum qui unoquoque saeculo Ecclesiam gubernant, authoritatem tantam esse, ut sit fidei nostrae circa Scripturam regula, Scriptura ipsa quoad nos certior & notior, & qua fides nostra de Scriptura sacra, tanquam praecipuo fundamento nitatur. Illud est quod negamus: neque quicquam ad hoc faciunt probationes illae quae supra allatae sunt.
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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