Rome's integrity objection: Scripture's sincerity cannot be learned from Scripture alone
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Rome adds: we must know not only that Scripture's books are Spirit-dictated, but that they remain sincere and uncorrupted in our hands.
That integrity, they say, cannot be learned from Scripture itself — so another divine word seems required.
Hence their claim that Scripture alone is not a sufficient faith-rule.
Latin
XXXV. Addunt adversarii, Necesse est ut sciamus non tantum Scripturae libros ex se divinos esse, dictatos a Spiritu sancto, sed etiam sinceros & incorruptos hodie reperiri, & tales ad nostras manus pervenisse. Id autem non possumus ex ipsa Scriptura discere: ac propterea opus est alio Dei verbo, per quod certi reddamur de Scripturae ipsius sinceritate & integritate. Sola ergo Scriptura non est fidei regula sufficiens.