Positions lately held by the L. Du Perron, Bishop of Eureux, against the sufficiency and perfection of the scriptures maintaning the necessitie and authoritie of vnwritten traditions. Verie learnedly answered and confuted by D. Daniell Tillenus, Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Sedan. VVith a defence of the sufficiency and perfection of the holy scriptures by the same author. Faithfully translated.

The B. of Eureux.

He saith also to Timothie: Tu ergo fili confortare in gratia quae est in Christo Iesu, & quae audisti à me per multos testes, haec commenda fidelibus, qui idonei crunt & alios docere. Of which deposite there had bene no neede, if all the word of god, as our aduersaries pretend to proue by this same Chapter, had beene sufficiently written, or should haue been from the very time of the Apostles.

D. Tillenus his answer.

The apostle himselfe declareth, what he meaneth by this deposite, which he exhorteth Timothie to keepe, namely the patterne of wholsom words, he had heard of him, which con∣sisteth in faith and loue: and it followeth in this very verse, that he shoulde communicate it vnto faithfull men, which should bee able to teache others. But in the third chapter he sayth most plainly, that by the Scripture, not onely Laymen (as they call them) but also the man of God, that is to say, the Pastour or Doctor of the Church, should and may bee taught and made wise vnto saluation, and absolutely instructed and made perfect vnto euery good work. VVhence it followeth, that this deposite or matter committed of trust vnto Timothie is nothing else but the scripture, which is sufficiente euen for the saluation of a Bishop, and not of a Lay man onely, which later, du Perron in our conference, was forced to confesse, fin∣ding no other distinction to escape.

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