Rome: works condignly merit second justification; Reformed deny 'merit' vs grace

Rome unanimously: works condignly merit 'second justification' (growth in grace).

Reformed admit growth by good works under Christ's promise, but deny 'merit'—grace and debt conflict (Rom 4; 11).

Latin

LVIII. Sed praeterea Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, alio sensu opera justificare docent; quia, scilicet, juxta mentem illorum, merentur ex condigno secundam, quam vocant, justificationem, id est, augmentum gratiae illius, per quam homo in sanctitate & justitia crescit; quae est unanimis eorum sententia. Verum admittimus quidem exercitio bonorum operum hominem in justitia & sanctitate proficere, & majorem a Christo, secundum illius promissa, gratiam obtinere. Sed tamen negamus propterea dicendum esse, quod opera nostra gratiam istam mereantur. Quoniam, videlicet, inter se pugnant gratia, & debitum. Nec gratia est, id est, donum Dei gratuitum, quod operibus nostris ex justitia debetur. Siquidem Apostolus diserte opponit illud quod est secundum gratiam, ei quod est secundum debitum. Rom. 4. v. 4. Quo pertinet illud ejusdem Apostoli, Si ex gratia, jam non ex operibus; alioquin gratia jam non est gratia: si autem ex operibus, jam non ex gratia; alioquin opus jam non est opus. Rom. 11. v. 6. Sed quaestionis hujusce momentum accuratius alias, Deo favente, expendemus, quum de Meritis operum ex professo agemus.

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

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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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