Expressed immediately vs mediate by consequence — two natures
Beside the last distinction stands another close to it. One thing is to contain a teaching expressly and immediately; another is to contain it mediately, by consequence.
On our view Scripture does not hold every dogma of faith in that immediate, express form. Still nothing that necessarily belongs to faith and religion fails to follow from Scripture by a good, open consequence.
Scripture never says in so many words that Christ has two natures, or two wills in him. Both still belong to the truth of faith, because they follow openly from what Scripture teaches in many places — that Christ is true God and true man.
Latin
IX. Priori autem isti distinctioni affinis est altera. Nam aliud est continere expresse & immediate, aliud mediate & per consequentiam. Et Scriptura quidem, ex nostrorum mente, omnia fidei dogmata non continet immediate & expresse. Sed nihil est ad fidem & religionem necessario pertinens, quod ex Scriptura deduci non possit per bonam & apertam consequentiam. Sic non dicit expresse Scriptura, Christum duas naturas habere, & in eo duas esse voluntates. Attamen ad fidei veritatem utrumque pertinet: quoniam aperte ex eo consequitur, quod Scriptura docet pluribus in locis, nempe, Christum verum Deum, & verum hominem esse.
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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