No unwritten tradition equals Scripture — sole rule of faith
So there is no unwritten tradition that should be matched in authority with the divine and Apostolic writings.
Scripture is the sole rule of faith; nothing else can be joined to it with the same power to bind conscience and constrain faith. If Scripture were not enough and did not hold all that belongs to faith, the Church would lack a sufficient rule, and her salvation would not have been adequately provided for.
Latin
XXXVI. Unde patet nullam esse traditionem non scriptam, quae authoritate comparari debeat cum scriptis divinis & Apostolicis: adeoque Scripturam esse unicam fidei regulam, cui alia non possit adjungi quae vim eandem habeat obligandi conscientiam, & fidem obstringendi. Ac proinde, si ipsa sufficiens non esset, neque omnia, quae ad fidem pertinent, contineret, sequeretur Ecclesiam ejusmodi regula sufficienti carere, nec illius saluti sufficienter fuisse provisum.
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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