Extra-Scriptural teaching is rejectable as human — Scripture the examination rule
Church teachers' delivery can be rejected as human tradition only because it stands outside Scripture.
If God's word were not bounded by Scripture and an unwritten divine word also existed, teachers could rightly claim their teaching is that word — and if we needed an unwritten word, where else would we take it?
Yet Christ shows Church doctors can propose mere human invention as God's word.
Therefore whatever can be proposed outside Scripture's substance counts as human doctrine, and Scripture is the rule for examining all things — otherwise magisterial precepts could never be rejected as human traditions.
Latin
XXVIII. Denique quod tradunt & docent Ecclesiae Doctores non potest rejici tanquam humana traditio, nisi quia est extra Scripturam. Etenim, si Dei verbum Scriptura sacra determinatum non esset, sed praeterea extaret verbum Dei non scriptum, jure possent obtendere Ecclesiae Doctores sua documenta esse illud ipsum Dei verbum. Et revera, si ad aliquod verbum Dei non scriptum nobis recurrendum esset, unde potius deberet accipi quam ab ipsis? Cum ergo nihilominus contingat, teste Christo, Ecclesiae Doctores pro Dei verbo proponere quod non est aliud quam humanum commentum; inde manifestum est habendum esse pro doctrina hominum, quicquid extra Scripturae substantiam proponi potest, & Scripturam regulam esse ad quam omnia examinanda sunt: alioquin, ut diximus, Magistrorum Ecclesiae praecepta & documenta, tanquam traditiones humanae, rejici non possent.
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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