Sanctification is free gift, not earned by prior acts

Prior acts do not merit or efficiently cause sanctification; it is God's free gift.

Rom 6:23 with Diodati/Beza: eternal life as predicate of the free gift of justifying/regenerating grace.

Latin

XIX. Nec tamen gratia illa per quam intus sancti justique in conspectu Dei reddimur, tribuenda est actuum illorum, qui etiam ex divina ordinatione praecedunt, merito & efficaciae. Etenim sanctificatio & adoptio fidelium Dei donum est plane gratuitum, nec eam aut poenitentia, aut fides praerequisita per se efficere aut promereri potest. Ideoque ab Apostolo simpliciter δωρεὰν, donum Dei gratuitum vocatur Rom. 6. vers. ult. Stipendia peccati mors; donum autem Dei vita aeterna. Quippe, juxta sententiam doctissimorum interpretum, Diodati scilicet & Bezae, vita aeterna ibi rationem non habet subjecti, sed praedicati. Nec simpliciter intendit Apostolus dicere vitam aeter-nam esse quid quod gratis a Deo donatur, sed potius justitiam τὴν δικαιοσύνην, quam Deus gratuito nobis donat, dum nos Spiritu & Verbo regenerat, nos ad vitam aeter-nam, tanquam ejus finem & praemium ducere; sicut peccatum impoenitentibus, & pec-cati servis mortem aeternam affert.

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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