Only living/formed faith justifies; Stapleton, Bellarmine, Vasquez, Becanus

Rome agrees: only living faith that works through love justifies; dead faith profits nothing.

Stapleton, Bellarmine, Vasquez, Becanus: formed faith (with charity) alone justifies.

Latin

XLII. Praeterea fatentur fidem mortuam atque otiosam hominem non justificare, illamque nihil omnino prodesse ad justitiam & salutem: ac proinde nos sola fide viva, & quae per dilectionem operetur, justificari. Ita Thomas Stapletonus Anglus in Academia Duacensi Professor, asserit pluribus in locis, fidem sine charitate & opere obedientiae mortuam esse, id est, ut ipse exponit, ad salutem & justitiam prorsus ineptam, vanam, & inutilem. Sicuti videre est libro de Justificatione, cap. 2. & cap. 13. Et Prolegomenis in librum quintum, ex Apostolo docet, fidem ad justitiam consequendam nihil valere, nisi operetur per dilectionem. Similiter Bellarminus lib. 1. de Justif. cap. 14. multis argumentis probat fidem quae separata est a spe & dilectione, ac proinde quae viva non est, justificare non posse. Quibus accedit Vasquez, tom. 2. in primam secundae disput. 110. cap. 7. num. 54. ubi observat fidem, quam Concilium Tridentinum docet habere rationem radicis & fundamenti in nostra justificatione, esse illam quae movet & excitat affectum: fidem autem quae affectum non movet, neque ex se actuosa est, ut alliciat voluntatem ad bonum, rationem istam radicis & fundamenti non habere. Ideoque merito Becanus Jesuita, in Summa Theologiae Scholasticae, tom. 2. tract. 4. cap. 2. num. 7. Catholicis suis tribuit, quod communi consensu docent solam fidem formatam, quo nomine Schola Romana designat illam quae cum charitate juncta est, justificare. Catholici, inquit, docent fidem non justificare, nisi sit formata charitate. Item, Catholici docent, cum Augustino, fidem posse informem existere, non tamen nisi formatam justificare.

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)
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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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