Theological Theses · §90 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

So the controversy is not Church alone versus the Spirit alone

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From all this it is clear that those have missed the mark of this controversy who state the question as: Do we believe Scripture on the Church's testimony alone, or chiefly on the inward testimony of the Holy Spirit? — as if Rome wholly rejected and hissed out that inward Spirit-testimony.

And on the other side the Pontificii wrong us when they harry our people as boasters of a private Spirit, gaping after enthusiasms. On the Spirit's secret testimony we teach nothing beyond what they themselves grant. Nor does that testimony cancel, as they falsely charge, the need of the Church's ministry to propose and explain what belongs to faith — as the previous disputation has already shown at length.

Latin

XIII. Ex his vero manifestum est eos non attigisse hujus controversiae scopum qui quaestionis statum sic explicant. An, scilicet, Scripturae credamus propter Ecclesiae solum testimonium: an vero praecipue, propter testimonium internum Spiritus sancti: quasi Ecclesia Romana internum illud Spiritus sancti testimonium prorsus rejiceret et exsibilaret. Et vice versa nobis injurios esse Pontificios qui nostros exagitant, quasi privatum jactantes Spiritum, et enthusiasmis quibusdam inhiantes. Etenim de Spiritus arcano testimonio non docemus aliud quicquam quam quod ipsi fatentur et docent. Nec per istud testimonium excludimus, ut nobis calumniose objiciunt, necessitatem ministerii Ecclesiastici in proponendis atque exponendis iis quae pertinent ad fidem, ut superiori disputatione abunde docuimus.

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