Burden of proof for Apocrypha and unwritten traditions lies on their defenders
Scripture's perfection is not hurt if it cannot demonstrate that this or that book, falsely presumed canonical, is really apocryphal.
Even if unwritten traditions were granted for the sake of argument, it should be enough for rejecting them that their authority cannot be shown by fit arguments as divine Scripture's can.
It is not our job to prove they are not divine. Those who press and defend them must prove that they are.
Latin
XXII. Ac proinde Scripturae perfectioni nihil obest, si demonstrari per eam non possit hunc aut illum librum, qui falso Canonicus praesumitur, revera Apocryphum esse. Imo, etiamsi omnino steteret de non scriptis traditionibus, ad illas rejiciendas sufficere deberet, quod idoneis argumentis eorum authoritas suaderi & probari non potest sicuti Scripturae divinae. Neque nostrum est probare illas non esse divinas, sed eis qui illas urgent atque tuentur, probandum incumbit illas divinas 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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