Both senses: Scripture holds all faith-and-salvation necessaries — nothing outside binds
When our Churches say Scripture has everything necessary to faith and salvation, they mean necessary in both senses — not the first alone.
We do not only claim that nothing outside Scripture is such that without explicit faith and knowledge of it no one can be saved. We also claim that no one should be judged to sin against Christian faith and his own salvation merely for rejecting and attacking what sacred Scripture does not teach.
So our case is not proved by listing only what explicit faith for salvation needs. Faith’s scope is wider than that minimum — yet we still hold that nothing belongs to faith that Scripture does not contain.
Latin
V. Quum autem statuunt Ecclesiae nostrae ea, quae sunt ad fidem & salutem necessaria, in Scripturis omnia haberi, intelligunt necessaria non tantum primo modo, sed etiam secundo modo. Nec enim id solum volumus, extra Scripturam nihil esse sine cujus explicita fide & notitia ad salutem nemo pervenire possit: sed hoc quoque, neminem existimari debere in fidem Christianam, & salutem propriam peccare, eo quod rejiciat & impugnet aliquid quod Scriptura sacra non docet. Unde sequitur nostram sententiam non satis probari, inductione facta eorum quorum fides & cognitio explicita possit alicui ad salutem sufficere. Nam fides in genere ambitu suo plura comprehendit, quam ea quorum cognitio ad salutem necessaria sit. Ad fidem autem nihil pertinere censemus quod in Scriptura non reperiatur.
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.