Implicit Church-faith alone insufficient; explicit Creed articles required for salvation
Rome concedes that merely believing in general what the Church believes, with no explicit grasp of any mystery, does not suffice for salvation.
Private persons may hold many dogmas only implicitly, but each believer needs some express explicit cognition of at least the principal Creed articles; that cognition may still be rude and confused.
Latin
XXVII. Ultro quoque concedunt ad salutem non sufficere, ut aliquis generatim & implicite credat quod Ecclesia credit, etiamsi nullius mysteriorum divinorum expressam & explicitam cognitionem habeat. Quanquam enim doceant, respectu multorum fidei dogmatum, privatis sufficere generalem quandam & implicitam fidem, nihilominus requirunt in fidelibus singulis, tanquam ad salutem necessariam, cognitionem aliquam expressam & explicitam primorum saltem & praecipuorum fidei articulorum, cujus generis sunt qui Apostolorum Symbolo continentur. Licet cognitio illa quamvis explicita sit, rudis tamen adhuc & confusa maneat.
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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