If bare knowledge were the privilege, Rome's own theology books already destroy it
If privilege were mere textbook grasp, nothing should ever have been written — only perpetual oral handoff.
Rome already admits the mysteries sit clear in countless scholastic books.
Unbelievers can learn the system from those theologians even if they miss it in the Prophets and Apostles.
So their imaginary privilege dies either way — written Scripture or written Doctors.
Latin
XXXI. Quod si habeatur ratio prioris istius notitiae, quae tota in simplici quadam apprehensione posita est, certe ut illa quoque Ecclesiae propria maneret, nec infideles ulli ejus participes essent, doctrina Christiana a nullo unquam debuit scripto mandari, ac chartis committi, sed viva tantum voce in Ecclesia perpetuo tradi. At quamvis Pontificii praetendant non omnia fidei mysteria ab Apostolis & viris Sanctis scripta esse, fatentur tamen illa in quamplurimis Doctorum suorum libris scripta reperiri, idque sigillatim, clare & dilucide, ut a legente quovis percipi possint. Ac proinde, quamvis infideles ex scriptis Propheticis & Apostolicis non possent totam doctrinam Christianam haurire, facile tamen illam discere possunt ex Theologorum Christianorum libris. Et sic non minus concidit imaginarium istud Ecclesiae privilegium, quam si omnia in libris Prophetarum & Apostolorum perscripta sint, sicut nos contendimus.
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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