Pontifical dispute: does faith merit justification de congruo?
Rome divided: Stapleton—faith merits neither de condigno nor de congruo.
Bellarmine/Vasquez—Trent bars only condign merit; congruous merit of faith allowed.
Latin
XLV. Inter se disputant Theologi Pontificii, An fides, saltem de congruo, non mereatur justificationem. Et quidem eorum nonnulli pretendunt fidem neque de condigno, neque de congruo mereri remissionem peccatorum, & primam quam vocant justificationem, qua homo ex peccatore & non justo fit justus, idque quia Concilium Tridentinum simpliciter excludit a fide meritum justificationis, neque ullam hac in re distinctionem adhibet; qui in sententia est Thomas Stapletonus prolegomenis in librum 5. de Justificatione. Alii vero putant Concilium Tridentinum excludere solum meritum de condigno, non vero negare quin fides de congruo mereri possit justificationem hominis peccatoris per fidem Christum amplectentis, quae est Bellarmini & Vasquezii sententia.
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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