Plenitude across ages — Scripture always held what each age needed
From what we have already set out, it is plain enough in what sense we praise Scripture's fullness and sufficiency, and press that it contains everything necessary to faith and salvation.
We do not give that perfection only to Old and New Testament Scripture as the Apostles and apostolic men handed it down to us. From the moment God saw fit to put his word in writing, we hold that Scripture always contained all that God's people and the Church needed to worship him rightly and to reach salvation — and that they did not need to go elsewhere to draw the teaching of faith and salvation.
Latin
XXV. Porro, ex iis quae jam exposita sunt, satis manifestum est, quo sensu commendemus Scripturae plenitudinem, & sufficientiam, & inculcemus illam omnia quae sunt ad fidem & salutem necessaria continere. Istam autem perfectionem non tantum tribuimus Scripturae Veteris & Novi Testamenti, prout ab Apostolis, & viris Apostolicis nobis consignata est: sed, ex quo Deo visum est verbum suum scripto tradere, existimamus Scripturam semper continuisse omnia quae Dei populo & Ecclesiae necessaria erant ad Deum rite colendum, & salutem adipiscendam: nec opus fuisse alio recurrere ad hauriendam fidei & salutis doctrinam.
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.