Believer 'does not work' means lacks law's perfect obedience—not empties of pious acts
Rom 4 'does not work' = lacks law's perfect wage-earning obedience—not lacks pious acts.
Living faith necessarily has sorrow, trust, love, prayer; God still imputes apart from legal perfection.
Latin
XXXVII. Proinde juxta Paulum, per legem, sive opera nemo justificatur, nisi qui nullius est transgressionis reus, quique plane isti clausulae satisfecit, Qui fecerit ea homo vivet in eis. Illi vero qui credit in eum qui justificat impium, Deus justitiam sine operibus imputat, quoniam Deus illum pro justo habet, etiamsi non sit defunctus operibus quae lex exigit ad justificationem. Et similiter, quum credentem & operantem opponit Apostolus, docetque Deum justificare non operantem, sed credentem, per operantem intelligit illum qui opera lege praescripta sic praestitit, ut gratia opus non habeat, sed debeatur illi ex justitia merces: sicuti videre est cap. 4. epist. ad Rom. Ei qui operatur, inquit, merces non imputatur ex gratia, sed ex debito. Ei vero qui non operatur, sed credit in eum qui justificat impium, imputatur fides sua ad justitiam. Ubi, quum dicit Apostolus non operari eum qui credit, manifestum est eum dicere nolle, quod qui credit sit bonis omnibus operibus vacuus. Nam in eo qui viva & salutari fide credit, necessario multa bona opera reperiuntur, qualia sunt, dolor de peccatis admissis, & anteactae vitae detestatio, votum & studium vitae melioris, veniae spes, & fiducia in Deum, denique & timor, & amor, & pia nominis ejus invocatio. Sed dicitur non operari qui credit, quoniam non praestat opera juxta legem ad vitam obtinendam necessaria. Ac quamvis fidem ejus multa pia & sancta opera comitentur, Deus tamen, ut loquitur Apostolus, justitiam illi imputat sine operibus, quoniam caret operibus legis; id est, perfecta illa & exacta obedientia, sine qua lex nullum justum pronunciat.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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