Second contradiction: zealots who demand equal faith for private interpretations and consequences
XIII. Second, certain zealots contradict — not in the faith of charity, in which no zeal is too little, but in knowledge, that is, in those controversies in which even the pious can sometimes easily err — who demand that their interpretations and certain consequences, though notoriously not received in the Church in every age, be believed equally with the Word of God.
Such men, though they wish to appear to have made a secession from the Papacy, can scarcely, while this opinion of theirs stands safe, defend against the papists that the Scriptures alone are the clear and sufficient canon of the faith: namely if they will that whatever they themselves, by an interpretation and consequence not that catholic one granted by all, but a controversial one peculiar only to certain doctors, think can certainly be deduced from the Scriptures, must necessarily be believed. For in every consequence something of reason is assumed toward the testimony expressly in the Scriptures. And that natural assumption, unless it is common to all the pious, or even to all sound men, and so among them to the pious too, is not certainly and notoriously divine, equipollent and as it were understood under the Scriptures, but belongs to the στοιχεῖα καὶ κόσμου — the elements of the world (Colossians 2:8). Those who use this therefore add to the Scriptures, and by that very thing open a gaping gate to all for inventing new heresies daily. For there will be no one who does not think some argumentation of his own to be necessary and evident.
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XIII. Secundo, contradicunt zelotae quidam non in fide charitatis, in quibus nullus zelus est nimius, sed in scientia, h.e. in iis controversiis, in quibus facile etiam pii quandoque errare possunt: qui interpretationibus & consequentiis quibusdam suis, quamvis notorie in Ecclesia omni tempore non receptis, aeque ac Dei verbo credi postulant. Hi tales, etsi a Papatu secessionem fecisse videri volunt, salva hac opinione sua, solas Scripturas perspicuum ac sufficientem fidei canonem esse, contra Pontificios tueri vix possunt: si videlicet necessario credi volunt, quicquid ipsi interpretatione & consequentia non catholica illa, & concessa ab omnibus, sed controversa & quibusdam tantum doctoribus peculiari ex Scripturis confidunt certo deduci posse. In omni enim consequentia aliquid rationis assumitur ad testimonium expressum in Scripturis. Assumtum autem illud naturale, nisi sit commune omnium piorum, vel etiam omnium sanorum hominum, & sic inter illos piorum quoque, non est certo aliquid & notorie divinum, aequipollens & quasi in Scripturis subintellectum, sed ad τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου elementa mundi pertinet, Col. 2.v.8. Addunt igitur Scripturis, qui hoc utuntur, eaque re ad novas quotidie haereses fingendas decumanam portam omnibus aperiunt. Nemo enim erit, qui non suam aliquam argumentationem necessariam atque evidentem esse existimet.