Rome: if all were written, the Church would lose her privilege of secret mysteries
Third argument: church dignity / privilege.
Romans 3: Jews held the oracles — so the church alone holds true religion's secrets.
If everything is written, that privilege vanishes.
Heretics, Jews, and pagans would know the mysteries as well as we and our bishops.
Latin
XXIX. Tertium argumentum Pontificii sumunt ab Ecclesiae dignitate. Nam, inquiunt, ut olim Judaei excellabant omnibus nationibus, quia credita erant illis eloquia Dei, ut dicit Paulus cap. 3. Epist. ad Rom. ita nunc praestat Ecclesia Christi omnibus sectis, quod ipsa sola noverit omnia mysteria verae religionis, & conscia sit secretorum sponsi. At, si omnia essent scripta, nullum esset Ecclesiae privilegium. Nam nihil minus scirent haeretici, & Judaei, & Pagani de mysteriis fidei nostrae, quam nos ipsi, atque antistites nostri.
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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