That Church-reduction exploded: distinguish God's Word itself from the things delivered in it
But once that opinion is exploded — the one that reduces faith in God's Word and sacred Scripture to the Church's authority — we must ask what our faith finally rests on, and what its proper and principal foundation is. To make that clear, a distinction seems needed between God's Word itself, or divine revelation, and the things handed down and contained in God's Word, which become open through divine revelation. Our faith receives the mysteries delivered in God's Word in one way, and God's own voice — divine revelation — in another.
Latin
XXIV. Verum explosa illa sententia, quae, fidem verbo Dei et Scripturae sacrae adhibitam, ad authoritatem Ecclesiae reducit, videndum quid ergo sit illud in quo tandem ultimo conquiescit fides nostra, et quod sit ejus proprium et praecipuum fundamentum. Quod ut manifestum fiat, videtur distinguendum esse inter ipsum Dei verbum, sive divinam revelationem: et illa quae Dei verbo traduntur et continentur, et per revelationem divinam patefiunt. Etenim, mysteria quae verbo Dei traduntur fides nostra aliter accipit, et aliter ipsam Dei vocem, seu divinam revelationem.
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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