Drawing consequences is not adding a second rule — Acts prophets
So today's Sophists wrong us when they chide us for drawing a dogma from Scripture by good consequence — as if we broke our own law that Scripture alone is the rule of faith and religion, with nothing added or taken away.
To deduce from Scripture is not to add to it, nor to put another rule in its place. It is to unroll what Scripture already holds and to open its hidden stores.
In Acts the Prophets are said to testify of Christ that whoever believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. Those bare words are not set down expressly in the Prophets; the Prophets are said to testify what follows from their witness.
Latin
X. Unde patet rursus hodiernos Sophistas injuste nos vexare, quum aliquod dogma nostrum per bonam consequentiam ex Scriptura eruimus. Quasi in eo retigeremus legem a nobis positam, qua statuimus Scripturam unicam esse fidei & religionis regulam, cui nihil addendum, nihil detrahendum sit. Nam ex Scriptura aliquid deducere non est ei aliquid addere, aut aliam fidei regulam substituere: sed illa ipsa quae continet evolvere, & reconditos ejus thesauros explicare. Ita dicuntur in Actis Prophetae Christo attestari, fore ut qui credit in eum remissionem peccatorum per nomen ejus accipiat. Neque tamen istud ullibi expresse positum, reperitur apud Prophetas; Sed dicuntur Prophetae testari quod ex testimoniis eorum deducitur.
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.