Congruous merit of penitential works: private opinion, not common Rome
Congruous merit of penitential works is a private Pontifical opinion, not common Roman doctrine.
Even they mean fitting divine goodness—not a justice-debt; Reformed grant the fittingness, reject the word 'merit'.
Latin
LVII. Quod autem dicunt nonnulli Theologi Pontificii, bona quaedam opera mereri de congruo remissionem peccatorum, & donum justitiae, peculiaris est eorum sententia, ut jam indicavimus, non vero doctrina communis Ecclesiae Romanae. Neque tamen per hoc significare volunt, justitiae infusionem, & peccati remissionem operibus poenitentiae ex justitia deberi, & non esse donum Dei gratuitum, sed hoc tantum, decere bonitatem divinam, eique congruum & conveniens esse, ut illis qui vere ad Deum convertuntur, & edunt fructus poenitentia dignos, peccata remittantur, & habitualis justitia donetur: quod Theologi Reformati non negant; licet in hoc negotio, merito vocem meriti repudiant, quia non est in Scripturae usu, & sonat aliquid superbum.
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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