False pretended principles fall by missing the Spirit's marks — not by proof-texts
Scripture's perfection does not require that it prove itself. Neither must every false pretended principle of faith be rejected by direct, express proof-texts.
We believe true faith principles immediately through the Spirit's inward illumination and persuasion. He sweetly draws people to them — not by another faith principle, but by motives and marks that make their divinity known.
So to refuse what are falsely counted as faith principles, it is enough that they lack the true marks of true principles, and that traces of human ignorance and weakness show in them.
Latin
XXI. Sicut autem ad perfectionem, quam Scripturae sacrae tribuimus, non requiritur, ut seipsam probet, ita quoque nihil necesse est, ut, quae falso obtenduntur fidei principia, per Scripturam directe & expresse rejici possint, atque ad hoc exigantur Scripturae testimonia. Sed quemadmodum veris fidei principiis immediate credimus, per illuminationem & persuasionem internam Spiritus sancti, qui homines eo suaviter adducit, non per aliud quoddam fidei principium, sed tantum motivis & notis quibusdam quibus divinitas eorum innotescit: sic ad rejicienda & non admittenda quae falso putantur fidei principia sufficit ut destituantur veris verorum principiorum notis, & in iis notari possint ignorantiae & imbecillitatis humanae vestigia.
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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