Oral teaching and unwritten polity admitted — yet outside the written deposit
We freely admit that the Prophets and Apostles and other men inspired by God said and taught many things by living voice that are not found set down word for word in sacred Scripture.
Nor do we deny that the Apostles and θεόπνευστοι men may once have ordered many things in the Church about the form of divine worship and various circumstances of church polity that are not written out in Scripture. Some historical items received from them may also have been kept among the faithful and handed on to later ages.
Latin
XXXII. Ultro quidem fatemur Prophetas & Apostolos hominesque alios a Deo inspiratos, plurima viva voce dixisse & docuisse, quae in sacris literis verbatim expressa non reperiuntur. Nec etiam negamus fieri potuisse ut Apostoli & viri θεόπνευστοι in Ecclesia olim multa ordinaverint, circa formam divini cultus, & varias Ecclesiasticae politiae circumstantias, quae non sunt in sacris literis perscripta. Atque etiam historica nonnulla ab iis accepta potuisse apud fideles conservari & transmitti ad posteros.
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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