John 16 is no warrant for Mass, saints, or images — heretics used the same text
Rome may not map John 16 onto Mass sacrifice, saint-invocation, or image-worship.
Ancient heretics used the same verse to baptize their figments.
Augustine (tract on John) already called out that abuse.
So the Pontifician move repeats the old heretical color, not a new proof.
Latin
V. Multo minus vero possunt nobis fidem facere, multa illa, quae Christus discipulis dicenda habebat, esse traditiones illas, quas nobis hodie obtrudunt de Missae sacrificio, de invocatione Sanctorum, de cultu imaginum, aliisque hujusmodi: certe istud majori cum ratione non affirmant de suis traditionibus, quam prisci haeretici de figmentis & somniis suis, quibus audacia simili authoritatem atque fidem conciliare conabantur: Testatur enim August. tractatu in Joan. 97. veteres haereticos his verbis Christi abusos fuisse, ut figmenta sua populo commendarent, quasi essent illa ipsa quae Christus dicenda discipulis habebat. Omnes, inquit, insipientissimi haeretici qui se Christianos vocari volunt, audacias figmentorum suorum hac occasione Evangelicae sententiae colorare conantur, ubi Dominus ait, adhuc habeo multa vobis dicere. Unde patet Pontificios imitari palam veteres haereticos, dum ex iisdem Christi verbis pro traditionibus suis non scriptis argumentantur.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.