Private only, yet not disapproved: sainted speakers, approved books, pastors fostering popular devotion
These sayings are private, not conciliar definitions—yet Rome does not disapprove.
Evidence: the harshest speakers are canonized; books carry episcopal and even papal approbation; pastors foster them in popular devotion.
Latin
LXXIV. Caeterum ista quidem a privatis tantum Doctoribus dicuntur: nec sunt authoritate publica definita, verum ea Ecclesia Romana non improbari, non pauca nec levia manifestum faciunt. Et primo quidem hoc inde colligitur, quod qui durius sunt ea de re locuti, in Sanctorum numero habentur, ut Bernardinus Senensis, Antoninus, Alanus, Bonaventura. Non leve quoque hujus rei indicium est, quod libri in quibus talia leguntur, sunt plerique Doctorum atque Episcoporum approbatione muniti, imo nonnulli Pontificum ipsorum. Praesertim vero quod ista magno studio inserta sunt & diligenter inculcata libris qui in manus populi traduntur, & devotionis plebis fovendae destinati sunt, idque non prohibentibus, neque reclamantibus, sed potius aperte faventibus Episcopis, & reliquis Pastoribus.
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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