Accurate divine science useful and laudable though not required for salvation
Even while holding that implicit faith in most dogmas, and only rude confused notitia of the principal articles, can suffice for salvation, Rome does not deny the usefulness of deeper divine science.
Such science kindles love of God; learners who advance deserve praise, while perpetual learners who never reach truth deserve blame.
Latin
XXVIII. Denique etsi doceant ad salutem sufficere, si quis implicite credat pleraque fidei dogmata, neque putent ad salutem necessario requiri primorum etiam & praecipuorum articulorum fidei accuratam & distinctam notitiam, sed rudem tantum & confusam, nihilominus non negant utilem & laudabilem esse scientiam rerum divinarum, quippe quae amorem Dei magis ac magis accendit: & sicut laude digni sunt qui discendo proficiunt, ita merito reprehendi, qui semper discunt, & ad scientiam veritatis nunquam perveniunt.
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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