Theological Theses · §201 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Pars II open — summary of our churches' plenitude teaching

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From the preceding theses on Scripture's plenitude and sufficiency — as clearly as we could — we have set out our Churches' teaching.

In short: once God willed his word consigned in writing, the Church in the sacred books had all that each age and God's varied dispensation made so needful to salvation that no one could teach, defend, or hold the contrary without loss of salvation.

Or the same point: sacred Scripture has always held all that belongs to the body and substance of religion and is necessary by God's institution — though many circumstances of worship and church discipline were left to the Church's power, not prescribed one by one in Scripture.

Latin

I. Ex THEISIBUS praecedentibus de Scripturae plenitudine & sufficientia, quam distincte & dilucide a nobis fieri potuit, exposita est nostrarum Ecclesiarum sententia. Ut vero rem totam in pauca contrahamus, huc illa redire videtur, nempe, ex quo Deus verbum suum scriptis consignari voluit, Ecclesiam in libris sacris habuisse omnia quae pro singulis aetatibus, & varia Dei dispensatione ad salutem ita necessaria erant, ut nemo posset citra salutis dispendium contrarium docere, tueri ac tenere: sive quod eodem recidit, Scripturam sacram semper continuisse omnia quae ad corpus & substantiam religionis pertinebant, & ex Dei instituto necessaria erant, quamvis determinatio multarum circumstantiarum quae ad divini cultus, & Ecclesiasticae disciplinae exercitium pertinent, fuerit potestati Ecclesiae permissa, non sigillatim in Scriptura praescripta.

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