Reply: heretics can mix true with false — rejecting tradition is not automatically heresy
Heresy is not every opinion a heretic holds.
False teachers can still affirm many truths.
Even shared rejection of traditions would not make rejecting them heresy.
They were heretics for perverting Scripture — not for under-valuing tradition; else we must also damn their confession that Jesus is Christ.
Latin
XXIII. Respondeo, quicquid haeretici sentiunt, protinus tamen haereticum non esse. Nam haeretici possunt cum falsis dogmatibus multa vera amplecti. Itaque, licet haeretici illi, quos adversarii recensent, traditiones communi consensu rejecissent, non inde sequeretur tamen haeresin esse traditiones rejicere. Nam haeretici quidem illi fuerunt, sed non in eo quod non satis tribuebant traditionibus, verum in eo quod contra Scripturae authoritatem perversa & impia dogmata defendebant. Alioqui, si quicquid illi senserunt damnandum est, credendum non est Jesum esse Christum, & pro Christo patiendum esse, quod illi quoque admiserunt.
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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