Three Roman rules for discerning Divine and Apostolic traditions — first rule
Roman doctors offer several tests for sorting true Divine and Apostolic traditions from fakes; they boil down to three.
First: whatever Rome believes as de fide, yet is not clearly in Scripture, must itself be a Divine or Apostolic tradition — because Rome cannot err, and because she is not ruled by fresh revelation but only by what she learned from Apostles and Prophets.
Latin
XVI. Porro Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae plures tradunt regulas, quibus traditiones revera divinae & Apostolicae discerni possint ab aliis, quae falso possent pro talibus obtrudi. Quae tamen omnes regulae ad tres reduci possunt. Prima est quod quicquid Ecclesia Romana tanquam de fide credit, nec tamen in Scriptura clare traditum reperitur, hoc ipso censendum est traditionem esse divinam, seu Apostolicam. Idque nititur duobus quae supponunt fundamentis. Unum est quod Ecclesia Romana errare non possit: Alterum quod tamen Ecclesia illa hodie non regitur novis revelationibus: sed quicquid novit in rebus fidei id totum ab Apostolis & Prophetis didicit.
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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