The flock does not take the pastor's sense by blind obedience — but by the light of truth shown
Believers do not swallow a pastor's reading by blind obedience or bare office.
Once the sense is shown, the light of truth itself leads them to it.
Finding a sense is harder than recognizing it when another has demonstrated it.
Like faded handwriting: after it is read aloud, the eye begins to see the strokes for itself.
Latin
XLIII. Veruntamen Scripturae sensum a Pastoribus suis commonstratum plebs fidelis non amplectitur caeca quadam obedientia, & propter eorum solam authoritatem, sed eo adducitur ipsa luce veritatis, quum ipsi semel indicata atque commonstrata est. Etenim difficilius est loci alicujus sensum invenire ac deprehendere, quam deprehensum ab alio & demonstratum, sola evidentia veritatis agnoscere & discernere. Quemadmodum multi sunt qui non possunt per se legere epistolam aliquam scriptam literis exolescentibus aut non satis apte formatis. Et tamen, postquam illis praelecta est, incipiunt agnoscere, & distinguere literarum ductus, & vident propriis oculis quid in illa contineatur.
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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