Obscurities conquerable for the pious cautious reader; Lambert; Scripture alone God's certain testimony
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Obscurities, therefore, if any seem to be present, are conquerable when the means are applied, for the pious and cautious reader.
Rightly Francis Lambert, once professor at Marburg, teaches that Sacred Scripture is opened to those who attribute nothing to themselves and to their own judgment.Likewise: if you possess wit, learning, and experience, renounce these when you come to Christ's school.Renounce them, I say — not that you wholly refuse them, but that you trust nothing to them: otherwise you will not be a fit disciple of Christ, and he will neither teach you nor open Scripture's most longed-for door.
For of God's truth and will Scripture alone is the certain and infallible testimony.
Latin
Obscuritates igitur, si quae inesse videntur, adhibitis mediis, sunt vincibiles pio & cauto lectori. Recte enim Franciscus Lamberti, olim professor Marpurgensis, sacram scripturam docet eis patefieri, qui nihil sibi tribuunt, & suo judicio. Item, si possides ingenium, doctrinam, experientiam, his abrenuncia, cum accedis ad Christi scholam. Abrenuncia, inquam, non ut omnino illa nolis, sed ut nihil eis fidas: alioqui non eris idoneus Christi discipulus, & non docebit te, nec scripturarum desideratissimum ostium referabit. Veritatis enim & voluntatis DEI sola scriptura certum & infallibile testimonium est.