Schools and confessions: principles are Scripture itself
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For a fuller grasp of the question, note what our schools treat and our public confessions set out.Some of it is admitting the true principles of faith and religion, and rejecting what is falsely pushed forward as such. The rest is the doctrine drawn from those true principles.
We say Scripture contains the principles of faith because those principles are Scripture itself.Our Churches admit no principles of faith beyond the inspired books that make up the body of Scripture.
Latin
XIV. Verum ad pleniorem quaestionis hujus intelligentiam, hic quoque est animadvertendum, ea quae in scholis nostris tractari solent, & in publicis nostrorum confessionibus proponi, & exponi, vel consistere in admissione verorum principiorum fidei & religionis, & rejectione eorum quae pro talibus principiis immerito & falso obtruduntur: vel esse doctrinam ipsam ex veris principiis haustam atque deductam. Et fidei quidem principia Scriptura sacra contineri dicimus, quoniam sunt ipsa Scriptura. Nec enim Ecclesiae nostrae ulla fidei principia admittunt, praeter libros divinitus inspiratos quibus constat Scripturae corpus.