Beside the babblers: learned Roman doctors who hold their Church's mind more carefully
Besides those babblers and sophists who carry no weight even among their own, we must admit that the Pontifical school has many learned men. They speak more carefully and exactly, and they choose their arguments better. These hold the Roman Church's mind more accurately, explain it better, and defend it more cautiously.
So those earlier quarrelsome wranglers should indeed be checked and put down; our people rightly refute their folly and impiety and expose it in public. Still, when we seek and fix the real state of a controversy with the Roman Church, we should not cling to those men's trifles. We should ask what the later sort think and teach — the ones who stand strong among their own in learning and authority.
Latin
VI. Sed praeter istos blaterones, et sophistas nullius inter suos authoritatis, fatendum est, in schola Pontificia multos esse viros doctos, qui magis considerate et exacte loquuntur, majoremque delectum argumentorum habent. Hi certe sententiam Ecclesiae Romanae accuratius tenent, et melius explicant, cautiusque defendunt. Ideoque priores isti vitilitigatores coercendi sunt quidem, et reprimendi, eorumque stultitia, et impietas merito a nostris coarguitur, et publice vapulat. Veruntamen, quum status alicujus controversiae cum Ecclesia Romana quaerendus et constituendus est, non putamus istorum nugis esse inhaerendum: sed inquirendum quid sentiant et doceant posteriores, qui apud suos pollent doctrina et authoritate.
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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