After the inspired writers were taken up — nothing outside their writings for faith
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But after those men were taken from the earth and translated into heaven — whose mouth and pen God was pleased to use to hand his mysteries to the Church — nothing is to be counted as belonging to faith and salvation that is not found in the writings they left and entrusted to the faithful as the Church's norm and rule of faith.
Their teaching cannot be sought or found safely and certainly anywhere but in their writings.
Latin
XXXI. Sed postquam terris exempti sunt, & in coelum translati illi, quorum ore & calamo Deo visum est uti ad sua mysteria Ecclesiae tradenda, nihil ad fidem & salutem pertinere existimandum est, quod non reperiatur in scriptis quae reliquerunt, & fidelibus commendárunt, ut in Ecclesia essent fidei norma & regula. Nec eorum doctrina alibi quam in eorum scriptis tuto & certo quaeri & inveniri potest.