A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §272 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio V §.II: Against making all dogmas hang on Roman authority — Constance / papal council can inflate the least

who own no fundamentals in themselves — neither by immediate divine authority nor by their nature as founding the Christian faith —

but hang every dogma of the faith, great or small, as to truth, necessity, or fundamentality, on the authority of the Roman Church.

So what barely touches the Christian faith, or even runs against it, can still, through some Constance or papal council, become essential to that faith — even the greatest point.

Latin

Fundamentales, sive auctoritate Divinâ eâque immediatâ, sive naturâ suâ talia, quòd fidem Christianam fundant, per se agnoscentes nulla, omnia verò Dogmata fidei Christianae maxima minimaque, tùm quà Veritatem, tùm quà Necessitatem, aut Fundamentalitatem, ab Auctoritate Ecclesiae Romanae suspendentes, quâ fit, ut quod vel fidem Christianam contingit minimum, vel fidei Christianae adversum est, illud nihilominus, hôc non obstante, per Constantiense quoddam, vel Papale Concilium, fidei Christianae essentiale evadat vel maximum,

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