Vasquez: perfect = nothing lacking to true justice
Vasquez: our justice is true and perfect because nothing needed for the ratio of justice is missing—not because it is at the highest degree.
He equates true with perfect as to essence, not degrees.
Latin
XXVIII. Quod autem haec sit Doctorum Scholae Romanae sententia, dum justitiam quae regenitis inhaeret, perfectam & absolutam vocant, clarissime docet Vasquez, tom. 2. in primam secundae, disput. 202. cap. 4. num. 26. ubi haec sunt illius verba: Porro autem nostram justitiam, & sanctitatem veram esse, & perfectam manifeste patet. Nam si Scriptura docet nos justos, immaculatos, & mundos esse, ut cap. 2. memoravi-mus, efficitur justitiam nobis inhaerentem veram & perfectam esse. Dico autem per-fectam, non quod in summo, aut excellenti gradu sit, sed quod ad rationem justitiae nihil prorsus ei desit, quominus ea vere justi constituamur & simus. Et paulo post haec addit: Si ergo Scriptura absolute nos justos pronunciat, sequitur quidem tum nobis ju-stitiam inesse, tum etiam veram & perfectam esse. Idcirco perfectio nostrae justitiae non debet probari ex quibusdam Scripturae testimoniis, in quibus commendatur perfecta & insignis charitas, sed potius ex illis in quibus docemur nobis inesse justitiam: nam justitia non est quae vera & perfecta non est, eo sensu quo perfectam & justitiam hactenus explicuimus. Ubi manifestum est illum verum & perfectum pro eodem sumere, & agere de perfectione essentiae, non graduum.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.