Explicit knowledge of chief articles required — pure church-trust without grasp condemned
Not every believer must distinctly know all Scripture contains.
Measure of knowledge differs — pastor/doctor more than a private believer.
All need some express explicit knowledge of the chief articles.
Blind church-trust with no distinct grasp of articles = condemned ‘implicit’ faith.
Enough: know the chief saving heads expressly; believe the rest at least in general.
Latin
XLI. Nec etiam necesse putant ad fidem singulorum, ut explicite & distincte noverint quaecunque Dei Verbo traduntur atque continentur. Etenim absque multorum expressa notitia fatentur fidem consistere posse; nec ab omnibus eandem exigi cognitionis mensuram; sed ampliorem & distinctiorem cognitionem requiri in Ecclesiae Doctore, vel Pastore, quam in muliere, aut fideli privato. Verum hoc tantum volunt fidelibus omnibus, respectu praecipuorum fidei articulorum, necessariam esse expressam & explicatam aliquam notitiam. Neque veram esse posse & salutarem fidem illam, quae de articulis & dogmatis fidei nihil distincte apprehendit, sed confuse tantum credit quod credit Ecclesia; etsi plane nesciat quid Ecclesia credat, aut credere debeat. Qualis fides ab iis implicita vocatur, & damnatur eo nomine. Caeteroqui non negant ad fidem sufficere, si sigillatim & expresse noscantur & apprehendantur summa doctrinae salutaris capita, reliqua vero quae tradit Dei verbum, saltem generatim & confuse credantur.
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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