Sum of the reply: no circle, no infinite regress — Scripture known by implanted signs
Faith-analysis allows neither a circle nor infinite regress — the mind must stop in a word received immediately for itself.
That word is sacred Scripture (a fixed number of God-breathed books), known by implanted signs, not by another divine word's bare certificate.
Self-knowledge by innate notes does not strip Scripture's perfection as faith-rule.
A rule need not prove itself the way it proves everything else — first principles are supposed, proved at most ad hominem / a posteriori.
Latin
XXXIV. Huc ergo redit summa responsionis nostrae, in fidei analysi nec dari posse circulum, nec progressum in infinitum, sed mentem nostram necessario sisti in aliquo Dei verbo quod per aliud Dei verbum non confirmetur, sed quod fides nostra suscipiat immediate & propter se, & in cujus notitiam & fidem adducamur per argumenta & signa insita, aliaque, ut loquuntur scholae, credendi motiva, non ex testimonio alterius cujusdam verbi divini desumpta. Istud autem Dei verbum, in quo sistitur fides nostra, esse Scripturam sacram, constantem certo numero librorum θεοπνεύστων, ac proinde illam a nobis non suscipi propter aliquod aliud Dei verbum quod testimonium illi perhibeat, nec etiam illam se nobis probare simplici & nudo suo testimonio, sed nobis innotescere ex signis & notis insitis aliisque argumentis atque incitamentis. Inde vero minime sequi illam non esse perfectam & sufficientem fidei regulam: quoniam in tali regula non requiritur ut aliter se probet, sed satis est ut, illa excepta, omnia quae ad fidem pertinent possint testimonio illius confirmari. Imo impossibile est dari talem regulam fidei, quae seipsam, sicut caetera, possit simplici suo testimonio probare: prorsus vero necessarium primam fidei regulam inter Christianos tanquam principium supponi, nec per alia fidei principia probari, nisi forte ad hominem, & a posteriori, ut loquuntur in scholis.
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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