Sola fide: not legal perfection, free pardon; Rome can admit this sense
Reformed sola fide: not legal-covenant perfection, but living faith; pardon free, no inherent justice that stands strict judgment.
Rome can easily admit this sense of the exclusion of works.
Latin
LV. Praeterea in quaestione est, an fides sola justificet, an vero etiam opera. Et quidem fidem solam justificare, non opera, pretendunt Doctores Scholae Reformatae, sicuti jam observavimus. Sed in eo mens eorum est, ad hoc ut justi habeamur, & absolvamur in Dei judicio, non exigi a nobis opera, quae lex, gratiae opposita, postulat ad peccatoris justificationem, id est, omnibus numeris absolutam legis observationem, quae omne peccatum, & omnem omnino transgressionem excludit, sed sufficere ut credamus in Christum fide viva, & per bona opera efficaci: etiamsi ante peccato servierimus, & postea non desinamus multis, ex infirmitate, lapsibus esse obnoxii. Ac praeterea, quum opera justificare negant, per id significare volunt, condonationem peccatorum nostrorum, & absolutionem ab illorum reatu in Dei judicio, gratuitam esse, & nullis operum meritis deberi: tum etiam nullas virtutes, nec ulla nostra constituere justitiam talem, quae possit districto Dei judicio opponi, & per quam, si Deus nos severe examinet, nec ullam nobis gratiam faciat, mortem aeternam evadere, & ad beatam immortalitatem pervenire queamus: quae omnia facile admittit Schola Romana.
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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