Reasons 9–10: against Photinian error; pious antiquity against the Pelagians
IX. From false teaching. For a doctrine that is properly the Photinians' error ought not to be tolerated in God's church. But that Scripture can be understood salutarily without the Holy Spirit's prior illumination is the Photinians' error. For Christoph Ostorodt in his German Institution chapter 1 §3 says: "We judge that all those err most gravely and dangerously who think Sacred Scripture can in no way work faith and obedience without prior inward illumination and a singular revelation of the Holy Spirit." But since this Photinian doctrine is false, its contradictory — which we here defend — is certainly true. It remains, therefore, that although Sacred Scripture scatters and communicates a grammatical light and historical light without the Holy Spirit's singular illumination — which even demons and the ungodly can see — yet no one can conceive in his mind an inward and living knowledge in Scripture unless the illuminating, influencing, disposing, cooperating, elevating light of grace, as principal cause, goes before, accompanies, and follows.
X. From the testimony and consent of pious antiquity against the Pelagians, who acknowledged no other light converting a person than the grammatical or historical, and so by moral persuasion only. Against them see Augustine, On faith to Peter, chapter 32: "Hold most firmly," he says, "and doubt in no way, that a person whom neither ignorance of letters nor any weakness or adversity hinders can indeed read the words of the sound law and Gospel, or hear them from some preacher's mouth: but that what he hears with the body he also perceives with the heart, and wills to do God's commandments — no one can, unless God has gone before him with his grace, a good will and power having been given from heaven." So Prosper of Aquitaine, Against the ungrateful: "Let the Apostle," he says, "run through the world, preach, exhort, plant, water, rebuke, insist, enter whatever way he finds closed by the word: yet that the hearer is advanced by these labors is effected not by the teacher, not by the disciple, but by grace alone — grace that does not merely counsel by kindly advice and exhortation, but also changes minds, reforms inwardly, and by creating power fashions a new vessel from a broken one."
Latin
IX. Ab heterodidascalia. Nam quae doctrina proprie Photinianorum error est, ea in Ecclesia Dei tolerari non debet. Atqui Scripturam sine praevia Spiritus sancti illuminatione salutariter intelligi posse, Photinianorum error est. Nam Christophorus Ostorodius in institutione Germanica c. 1. §. 3. Nos, inquit, judicamus, omnes eos graviter admodum & periculose errare, qui opinantur, sacram Scripturam sine praevia interiore illuminatione & singulari revelatione S.S. fidem & obedientiam nullo modo operari posse. Quoniam vero haec Photinianorum doctrina falsa est, utique ejus contradictoria, quam hic defendimus, vera est. Manet igitur, etsi sacra Scriptura lumen grammaticum & lucem historicam sine singulari illuminatione Spiritus sancti spargat & communicet, quam etiam daemones & impii videre possunt: tamen interiorem & vivam notitiam in Scriptura neminem animo suo concipere posse, nisi illuminans, influens, disponens, cooperans, elevans lumen gratiae, tanquam causa princeps, praecedat, comitetur & subsequatur. X. A testimonio & consensu piae antiquitatis contra Pelagianos, qui nullum aliud lumen, quam grammaticum sive historicum, adeoque suasione morali duntaxat, hominem convertens agnoverunt. Contra quos vide Augustinum de fide ad Petrum, c. 32. Firmissime, inquit, tene & nullatenus dubites, posse quidem hominem, quem nec ignorantia literarum, nec aliqua prohibet imbecillitas vel adversitas, verba sanae legis & Euangelii sive legere, sive ex ore cujusdam praedicatoris audire: sed ut, quod audit corpore, etiam corde percipiat, & mandata Dei facere velit, nemo potest, nisi quem Deus gratia sua praevenerit, data divinitus bona voluntate & virtute. Sic Prosper Aquitanicus de ingratis: Percurrat, inquit, Apostolus orbem, praedicet, hortetur, plantet, riget, increpet, insistat, quamcumque viam verbo reclusam invenerit intret: ut tamen his studiis auditor promoveatur, non doctor, non discipulus, sed sola gratia efficit, non quae concilio tantum hortatuque benigno suadet, sed & mutat mentes, intusque reformat, vasque novum ex fracto fingit virtute creandi.