System of Sacred Theology · §1.4.5 · Ludwig Crocius

Compared to our cognition: against atheists and against papal suspension of Scripture on the Church

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V. Comparatively, and by the reason of our cognition — insofar as its truth is persuaded to a sound person endowed with a sense of piety by certain arguments.

Here the question is: whence is it established that Sacred Scripture is θεόπνευστος and αὐτόπιστος — divinely inspired and of itself worthy of faith? That must be settled both against atheists who, with Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian, call Scripture's divinity into doubt, and against the papal party, who hang its authority on the testimony of their Roman Church — Cusa, Prierias, Verratus, Eck, Rutland ("no Scripture authentic without the Church's authority; therefore the Church's is greater"), Viguerius (Scripture to Church as body to soul), Hosius, Andradius, Bozius, Pighius, a Soto, Tapper, Stapleton, Salmeron, Gordon Huntly.

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V. Comparate & ratione nostrae cognitionis, quatenus illius veritas homini sano & pietatis sensu praedito certis argumentis persuadetur. Hic quaeritur, unde nobis constet sacram Scripturam esse θεόπνευστον & αὐτόπιστον? Determinandum tum adversus atheos (Celsus, Porphyrius, Julianus), tum adversus pontificios, qui auctoritatem ejus e Romanae ecclesiae testimonio suspendunt — ut Nicolaus Cusanus, Sylvester Prieras, Verratus, Eccius, Rutlandus, Viguerius, Hosius, Andradius, Bozius, Pighius, a Soto, Tapperus, Stapletonus, Salmeron, Gordonus Huntlaeus.

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