Rome: if all were written, the Church would lose her privilege of secret mysteries
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Third argument: church dignity / privilege.
Romans 3: Jews held the oracles — so the church alone holds true religion's secrets.
If everything is written, that privilege vanishes.
Heretics, Jews, and pagans would know the mysteries as well as we and our bishops.
Latin
XXIX. Tertium argumentum Pontificii sumunt ab Ecclesiae dignitate. Nam, inquiunt, ut olim Judaei excellabant omnibus nationibus, quia credita erant illis eloquia Dei, ut dicit Paulus cap. 3. Epist. ad Rom. ita nunc praestat Ecclesia Christi omnibus sectis, quod ipsa sola noverit omnia mysteria verae religionis, & conscia sit secretorum sponsi. At, si omnia essent scripta, nullum esset Ecclesiae privilegium. Nam nihil minus scirent haeretici, & Judaei, & Pagani de mysteriis fidei nostrae, quam nos ipsi, atque antistites nostri.