After the Apostles — certainty only from what is written; no more ἀδιάπτωτοι
The chief point — from which the rest follow — is this: of what the Apostles taught or instituted, we hold nothing as fully certain except what is handed down and set in sacred Scripture.
After the Apostles and apostolic men, the Church had no more ἀδιάπτωτοι men set beyond every danger of error. So whatever of their sayings and deeds reaches us outside the Canonical writings comes only on the credit of weak men, who could both err and deceive.
Latin
XXXV. Denique, quod praecipuum est, & unde reliqua sequuntur, illud constanter affirmamus eorum quae Apostoli docuerunt, aut instituerunt, nihil nos pro omnino certo & comperto habere, nisi ea quae sunt tradita & consignata in sacris literis. Et hoc quia post Apostolos, & viros Apostolicos, nulli amplius fuerunt in Ecclesia viri ἀδιάπτωτοι extra omne erroris periculum positi. Adeoque quicquid de dictis & factis Apostolorum, praeter scripta Canonica, ad nos usque pervenit, non habemus nisi ex fide hominum infirmorum, qui & falli & fallere potuerunt.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
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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