Apostolic Lent; terms confused with Divine; Ecclesiastical customs by consent
Apostolic traditions, in the proper sense, are commands and institutes they ascribe to the Apostles even when the Apostolic writings are silent.
Under that head they place the Quadragesima (Lent) fast, which they claim the Apostles founded.
Often they blur the labels: what only the Apostles (not Christ) instituted they still call Divine, because those institutes came with the Spirit's breath; and what they tie to Christ they also call Apostolic, since nothing of Christ's teaching reaches us except through Apostolic writing and preaching.
Ecclesiastical traditions are old customs begun by prelates or peoples that, by gradual tacit consent, took on the force of law.
Latin
XIII. Apostolicae vero traditiones ab iis proprie dicuntur, quae ab Apostolis praecepta & instituta opinantur, quamvis eorum mentio nulla fiat in scriptis Apostolicis. Ad quas traditiones referunt jejunium quod vocant Quadragesimae, quod ab Apostolis institutum autumant. Et tamen saepe has voces contundunt, traditiones Divinas vocantes ea, quae non Christus ipse, sed Apostoli tantum instituisse putantur: quoniam quae sunt ab iis instituta non sine divini Spiritus afflatu instituerunt. Et vicissim quae ad Christum referunt, traditiones quoque Apostolicas vocant, quoniam eorum quae Christus docuit nihil ad nos pervenit, nisi per Apostolorum scripta & praedicationem. Ecclesiasticae vero traditiones ab iis vocantur quaedam consuetudines antiquae, vel a Praelatis, vel a populis inchoatae, quae paulatim tacito populorum consensu vim legis obtinuerunt.
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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