Contarini: lean on Christ's justice, not inherent grace
Contarini: when we think of judgment we must lean on Christ's donated justice as sure foundation—not on inherent holiness.
Inherent justice is inchoate and cannot keep us from continual sin.
Latin
XXXV. Praecipue vero Cardinalis Contarenus, jam citato tractatu de Justificatione, candide agnoscit justitiam, quae per gratiam Christi fidelibus inhaeret, non posse severo Dei judicio opponi: sed cum judicium illud cogitamus, debere nos Christi justitiae niti, ut salutis nostrae fundamento. Ego, inquit, prorsus existimo pie & christiane dici, quod debeamus niti, niti, inquam, tanquam re stabili, quae certo nos sustentat, justitia Christi nobis donata, non autem sanctitate & gratia nobis inhaerente. Haec etenim nostra justitia est inchoata & imperfecta, quae tueri nos non potest, quin in multis offen-damus, quin assidue peccemus. Idcirco in conspectu Dei non debemus ob hanc justitiam nostram haberi justi & boni, quemadmodum deceret filios Dei esse bonos & sanctos.
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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