Pagan unwritten civil law does not prove unwritten faith-rules

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Athens and Sparta may run on unwritten civil custom — that lane is reason's.

Faith and worship come by revelation, not civic prudence.

Memory alone is not a safe vault for revealed things.

So wisdom had inspired men put them in writing for an uncorrupted church.

Latin

XXVIII. Porro profanarum Rerumpublicarum exempla nihil moramur. Possunt illae quidem uti optime legibus non scriptis, in iis quae ad civilem gubernationem pertinent, quaeque adeo ab humanae rationis judicio pendent. At inde non sequitur parem esse rationem eorum quae pertinent ad fidem & cultum divinum. Cum enim ista habeantur ex divina revelatione, nec in iis quicquam ratio perspiciat, hominum curae atque memoriae non satis tuto committi potuerunt: ideoque divinae sapientiae consultum visum est, ut a viris divinitus inspiratis scripto mandarentur, quo facilius in Ecclesia possent incorrupta servari.

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)
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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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