Three rules collapse to one — present Roman Church judgment alone discerns
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The three rules fold into one: whatever Rome proposes as Divine or Apostolic tradition must be taken as such without doubt.
As they hang the authority of long-known books on the present Church's witness, so they will have true traditions sorted from false ones only by that same judgment — and that with certainty and infallibility.
Latin
XIX. Sed rursus hae tres regulae in unicam contrahi possunt, hanc nempe, Quod quicquid Ecclesia Romana tanquam divinam aut Apostolicam traditionem proponit, pro traditione tali indubitato sit habendum. Quemadmodum enim Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae authoritatem librorum diu notorum quoad nos ab Ecclesiae praesentis testimonio suspendunt, ita quoque nonnisi ejusdem judicio traditiones veras a falsis certo & infallibiliter discerni & distingui volunt.