Ordinarily the Church's consent first moves us; it is still not faith's chief foundation
We have also shown this: speaking absolutely, we do not need the Church's voice and testimony in order to know and believe Scripture. Still, by the ordinary rule God uses the Church's ministry when he generates in us faith concerning Scripture. The first incentive that ordinarily moves us to receive it as true and divine is the Church's common consent and testimony.
Even so, the Church's voice and authority are not the principal foundation of our faith, nor the last point to which the certainty of the faith that embraces sacred Scripture is to be reduced.
Latin
III. Et hoc a nobis ostensum est, licet, absolute loquendo, non sit opus Ecclesiae voce et testimonio, ut Scripturae notitiam et fidem habeamus, attamen juxta legem ordinariam, Deum Ecclesiae ministerio uti in fide de Scriptura nobis ingeneranda; primumque incitamentum, quo movemur ordinarie ad illam suscipiendam pro vera et divina, communem esse Ecclesiae consensum et testimonium. Neque tamen Ecclesiae vocem et authoritatem esse fidei nostrae praecipuum fundamentum, et illud ad quod tandem reducenda est certitudo fidei qua Scripturam sacram amplectimur.
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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