The two-point question — unwritten apostolic necessities vs equal-authority tradition
The whole question therefore turns on two points.
First: Did the Apostles teach or institute necessary things not sufficiently contained in sacred Scripture?
Second: Can apostolic teaching and institutes be had with certainty and infallibility from somewhere other than Scripture — namely from the tradition of post-apostolic Church doctors, owed equal faith-obedience with Scripture itself?
Rome affirms both. All Orthodox (Reformed) theologians deny both.
Latin
XXIV. Adeoque tota haec quaestio in duobus versatur. Unum est, an Apostoli quaedam necessaria docuerint aut instituerint, quae non sint sufficienter in sacris literis contenta. Alterum, an Apostolorum documenta & instituta aliunde certo & infallibiliter peti & haberi possint, quam ex Scriptura sacra, nempe ex traditione Doctorum Ecclesiae qui Apostolos secuti sunt, cui par obsequium fidei debeatur atque ipsi Scripturae sacrae. Utrumque affirmant Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae: Theologi vero omnes Orthodoxi utrumque negant.
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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