Drawing consequences is not adding a second rule — Acts prophets
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So today's Sophists wrong us when they chide us for drawing a dogma from Scripture by good consequence — as if we broke our own law that Scripture alone is the rule of faith and religion, with nothing added or taken away.
To deduce from Scripture is not to add to it, nor to put another rule in its place.It is to unroll what Scripture already holds and to open its hidden stores.
In Acts the Prophets are said to testify of Christ that whoever believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.Those bare words are not set down expressly in the Prophets; the Prophets are said to testify what follows from their witness.
Latin
X. Unde patet rursus hodiernos Sophistas injuste nos vexare, quum aliquod dogma nostrum per bonam consequentiam ex Scriptura eruimus. Quasi in eo retigeremus legem a nobis positam, qua statuimus Scripturam unicam esse fidei & religionis regulam, cui nihil addendum, nihil detrahendum sit. Nam ex Scriptura aliquid deducere non est ei aliquid addere, aut aliam fidei regulam substituere: sed illa ipsa quae continet evolvere, & reconditos ejus thesauros explicare. Ita dicuntur in Actis Prophetae Christo attestari, fore ut qui credit in eum remissionem peccatorum per nomen ejus accipiat. Neque tamen istud ullibi expresse positum, reperitur apud Prophetas; Sed dicuntur Prophetae testari quod ex testimoniis eorum deducitur.