Conclusion I: what is clearly comprehended in undisputed Scripture must be believed
CONCLUSION I. Everything so clearly and plainly comprehended in the undisputed writings of the Old and New Testament that no one of sound mind can call it into doubt must necessarily be believed and confessed. For this rests on all those testimonies we cited concerning prophetic and Apostolic doctrine.
Yet anyone can readily understand that we ought to receive not only the bare letter by which God's Word was once uttered, but also all interpretations, exhortations, and consequences drawn from Scripture that are so conditioned that all Christian parties — and especially those called Papists, Lutherans, and Calvinists — conspire into them by open and unanimous consent.
Indeed the number and mass of dogmas placed beyond all controversy among these is so great that if one first chooses to select them all and express them in deed — so that we do not merely carry God's Word about on the surface of the mouth but receive it in the heart's center — we almost spontaneously forget both superfluous controversies and human additions, whether of those who condemn and persecute others without God's express Word, or of those who without God's plain Word stir unnecessary quarrels against the catholically received articles of the faith.
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CONCLUSIO I. Omne id, quod indubitatis Veteris ac Novi Testamenti scriptis ita clare ac perspicue comprehensum est, ut a nemine sanae mentis in dubium vocari possit, necessario credendum et fatendum est. Hoc enim nititur omnibus testimoniis illis quae de prophetica et Apostolica doctrina citavimus. Ubi tamen cuivis intelligere in proclivi est, nos non solum nudam literam qua verbum Dei semel enunciatum fuit, verum etiam omnes e scriptura sumptas interpretationes, exhortationes et consequentias recipere oportere, quae ita affectae sunt ut in eas omnes Christianorum sectae, et cumprimis Papistae, Lutherani, Calviniani (ut vocantur), manifesto et unanimi consensu conspirent. Dogmatum vero extra omnem controversiam apud hos positorum tantus est numerus, tanta moles, ut, siquidem ea prius omnia seligere et ipso opere exprimere libeat — ne verbum Dei superficie oris duntaxat circumferamus, sed cordis centro recipiamus — propemodum nostra sponte obliviscamur tum superfluarum controversiarum, tum humanarum additionum, quae sunt sive illorum qui alios sine expresso Dei verbo condemnant et persequuntur, sive istorum qui sine diserto Dei verbo contra catholice receptos fidei articulos lites non necessarias movent.