Sigillatim vs in seed — OT proves Gospel in genere
Dogmas may also be drawn from a principle in two ways: item by item, distinctly and of themselves; or only in a general, mixed way, through something else.
Not every Christian dogma and ordinance can be proved from the Old Testament by itself, one by one. Baptism in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could not be shown from the Old Testament alone if that were our only principle of faith.
Yet everything that belongs to Gospel teaching can be proved from the Old Testament in general, because from it one can show effectively that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and the Son of God promised by the Prophets — and therefore that his teaching is true and divine, and his ordinances to be received as divine.
What follows from a principle only in that general, mixed way is in it by force and in seed. What is proved from it distinctly, item by item, may be said to be in it expressly in a looser sense — though strictly 'expressly' means the same as clearly and immediately.
Latin
XI. Praeterea dogmata quaedam ex aliquo principio deduci possunt duobus modis. Primo sigillatim, distincte & per se. Deinde generatim confuse, & per aliud. Sic omnia religionis Christianae dogmata & instituta ex Scriptura veteris Testamenti probari non possunt per se & sigillatim. Ut, exempli gratia, fideles esse baptizandos in Nomine Patris, Filii, & Spiritus sancti ex veteri Testamento satis probari non posset, si nullum aliud fidei principium suppeteret praeter illam veterem Scripturam. Et tamen omnia quae ad Evangelicam doctrinam pertinent ex veteri Testamento in genere probari possunt, quatenus inde potest efficaciter demonstrari Jesum Nazarenum esse Messiam, & Dei Filium a Prophetis promissum: adeoque doctrinam illius veram & divinam esse, & ejus instituta tanquam divina a nobis amplectenda. Quae generatim & confuse tantum ex aliquo principio colligi, & deduci possunt, in eo continentur virtute atque in semine. Quae vero ex eo probantur distincte & sigillatim expresse dici possunt aliquo modo in eo contineri: licet strictiori sensu expresse idem significet ac diserte & immediate.
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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