Reply: the same innate notes that show divinity also show essential integrity
Rome is caught in its own snare — the integrity demand forces the reply their Scripture objection needs.
As Scripture needs no second word to prove its divinity, because it is the first rule known by innate signs and motives,
so it needs no second word to prove it uncorrupted and integral.
The same path that shows it divine shows it integral and sincere — at least in momentous and essential matters.
Latin
XXXVIII. Hic certe Pontificii constringuntur propriis laqueis, neque se possunt expedire quin objectioni suae responsionem subministrent. Sed respondeo quod sicut non opus est alio Dei verbo, cujus testimonio probetur Scripturam sacram esse divinam, quia Scriptura sacra est prima fidei regula, in qua fides nostra sistitur: Ipsa vero per se innotescere potest ex signis & notis insitis, aliisque argumentis & credendi motivis, quibus possunt fideles sufficienter moveri ut illam amplectantur ceu veram & divinam: ita quoque non opus est alio Dei verbo unde discamus Scripturam incorruptam & integram esse. Nam unde discimus illam esse divinam, inde discimus illam integram & sinceram esse, in rebus saltem momentosis & essentialibus.
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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