The difficulty presses all Christians — Protestant and Roman alike
Same knot presses Reformed and Roman theologians.
Scripture-alone or Rome’s unwritten revelation — both stop at a first revelation.
Question: how/by what reason we are made certain of that first.
Latin
XXV. Atque haec difficultas ex aequo urget omnes Theologos Christianos, & illis solvenda incumbit. Sive enim dicamus, ut revera dicendum est, Scripturam sacram esse unicum Dei verbum hominibus traditum, ex quo solo omnia credenda peti & confirmari possint, & quod alio quopiam Dei verbo confirmari non possit, nec egeat: Sive cum Doctoribus Ecclesiae Romanae, praeter Scripturam, esse aliam revelationem, sine scripto Ecclesiae fidei commendatam; cujus authoritate atque testimonio Scriptura nobis solemniter innotescat, & certa reddatur; semper, ut dixi, deveniendum est ad primam quandam revelationem, in qua mentem sisti necesse sit, & qua alia non sit certior, aut notior, cujus authoritate nobis commendetur atque consignetur. De hac igitur quaestio est quo pacto, & qua ratione de illa certi reddamur.
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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