Rome: having Scripture is not enough — you need its true sense, hence tradition
Rome presses again: owning the book is not enough — faith needs Scripture's true Spirit-intended sense.
Words alone are not the rule; the sense is.
That sense, they say, cannot come from Scripture alone, because the text is often ambiguous.
Without an infallible explainer — tradition — certainty fails; therefore sola Scriptura fails.
Latin
XL. Rursus instant adversarii, non satis est Scripturam in manibus habere, sed necesse est ut verum illius sensum teneamus. Nec enim fidei regula proprie sunt verba Scripturae, sed potius Scripturae sensus a Spiritu sancto intentus. Atqui verus Scripturae sensus ex sola Scriptura haberi non potest. Nam Scriptura saepissime ambigua & perplexa est, ut, nisi ab aliquo qui errare non possit explicetur, non possit intelligi: nec certi esse possimus de vero Scripturae sensu, nisi accedat traditio. Igitur Sola Scriptura non sufficit.
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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