Theological Theses · §219

Three rules collapse to one — present Roman Church judgment alone discerns

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The three rules fold into one: whatever Rome proposes as Divine or Apostolic tradition must be taken as such without doubt.

As they hang the authority of long-known books on the present Church's witness, so they will have true traditions sorted from false ones only by that same judgment — and that with certainty and infallibility.

Latin

XIX. Sed rursus hae tres regulae in unicam contrahi possunt, hanc nempe, Quod quicquid Ecclesia Romana tanquam divinam aut Apostolicam traditionem proponit, pro traditione tali indubitato sit habendum. Quemadmodum enim Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae authoritatem librorum diu notorum quoad nos ab Ecclesiae praesentis testimonio suspendunt, ita quoque nonnisi ejusdem judicio traditiones veras a falsis certo & infallibiliter discerni & distingui volunt.

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

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