The real difference — sola Scriptura vs tradition as a second equal divine word
The real split: Reformed hold that everything needed for faith and religion can be drawn and proved from Scripture alone — no second faith-principle to which Scripture remits us for fuller teaching, and no rule of faith outside Scripture.
Roman doctors deny that faith dogmas and religion's institutes can be proved sufficiently from Scripture without intervening Church doctrine and tradition, which they take as another part of the divine word equal in authority with sacred Scripture.
Latin
XXIII. Sed discrimen in eo est, quod omnia quae ad fidem & religionem necessaria sunt, contendimus ex Scriptura ita peti & probari posse, ut opus non sit alio fidei principio, ad quod Scriptura nos remittat plenius erudiendos. Nec etiam ullum fidei principium & regulam extra Scripturam agnoscimus. Doctores vero Ecclesiae Romanae omnia fidei dogmata, & religionis instituta ex Scriptura sufficienter probari non posse contendunt, nisi interveniente Ecclesiae doctrina atque traditione, quam tanquam alteram verbi divini partem paris cum Scriptura sacra authoritatis suscipiendum esse docent.
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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