Near consequences bind as faith articles; remote ones are only theological opinions
Doctrine drawn from Scripture and taught in the schools is of two kinds.
First: what Scripture states expressly, or what follows by nearest, evident consequences. Those should be proposed to the church as articles and heads of faith, with the mark of heresy for those who teach the opposite.
Second: what is rightly and soundly drawn from Scripture, yet not so clearly, and by subtler, more remote consequences. Those are not properly articles of faith, but theological truths or opinions. Their contrary should be called error — not heresy.
Rome's own doctors say only what their councils have clearly and expressly defined is de fide — not whatever they think they can weave by chaining consequence upon consequence. So they distinguish faith dogmas from their theologians' opinions: heresy against the first, error against the second.
Latin
XXIII. Quod spectat autem ad doctrinam quae ex Scriptura hauritur, & in scholis proponi solet, vel consistit in iis quae in Scriptura sacra reperiuntur diserte & expresse posita, aut saltem quae ex iis per consequentias proximas & evidentes deducuntur: cujus generis ea esse debent, quae tanquam articuli, & capita fidei credenda Christiano populo proponuntur, cum nota haereseos in illos qui contraria docent. Vel in iis quae quidem ex Scriptura recte & sane deducuntur, sed tamen non ita clare, & evidenter, & per consequentias magis subtiles & remotas: quod genus proprie non sunt articuli fidei, sed veritates, aut opiniones tantum Theologicae, quarum contrarium gravius appellari non debet, quam error, non vero nomine haereseos notari. Quemadmodum Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae ea tantum esse de fide statuunt, quae sunt a Conciliis suis perspicue & expresse definita, non vero quaecunque nectendo consequentias de consequentis ex iis sese recte colligere posse putant. Ideoque distinguunt inter fidei dogmata, & Theologorum suorum placita, atque sententias, prioribus haeresin, posterioribus errorem opponentes.
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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