Imputation without works follows because blessedness needs remission (Psalm 32)
Psalm 32: blessedness requires remission—so imputation is without law-perfect works.
Anyone needing forgiveness already lacks the flawless obedience law demands.
Latin
XXXVIII. Unde est quod Apostolus in sequentibus probat Deum imputare homini justitiam sine operibus, quia nemo pervenit ad vitam & beatitudinem, & ex consequenti justus apud Deum habetur, nisi cui Deus peccata remittit; juxta illud Davidis, Beati quorum remissae sunt iniquitates, & quorum tecta sunt peccata. Nam ut multa bona opera reperiri possint in eo qui opus habet remissione peccatorum, si tamen Deus illum pro justo habet, necessario imputat illi justitiam sine operibus illis quae lex gratiae opposita exigit ad hoc ut hominem justum pronunciet. Siquidem opera illa constant omnibus numeris absoluta legis observatione, qua destitutus est ille qui vel semel legem transgressus est, quique ulla peccati remissione opus habet.
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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