Trent: meritorious cause is Christ's passion alone

Romans agree first justification is free; Trent's sole meritorious cause is Christ's passion.

Nothing preceding justification—faith or works—merits the grace of justification.

Latin

XXXVIII. Atque hac etiam in parte, consentientes habemus ipsos Pontificios. Nam totam hominis impii & peccatoris justificationem, quae juxta eos constat peccatorum remissione, & renovatione interioris hominis, gratuitam esse agnoscunt. Nec statuunt ullam ejus causam meritoriam praeter Christi mortem & obedientiam, ut videre est in ipso Concilio Tridentino. Nam Sess. 6. cap. 7. enumerans causas justificationis, non aliam ejus causam meritoriam recenset quam passionem Christi. Hujus, inquit, justificationis causae sunt finalis quidem gloria Dei & Christi, & vita aeterna. Efficiens vero misericors Deus, qui gratuito abluit: meritoria dilectissimus unigenitus suus Do-minus noster Jesus Christus, qui cum essemus inimici, propter nimiam charitatem, qua dilexit nos, sua sanctissima passione in ligno crucis justificationem meruit, & pro nobis Deo patri satisfecit. Capite vero sequenti, expresse negat quicquam eorum quae justificationem praecedunt, ipsam justificationis gratiam promereri. Gratis autem, in-quit, justificari ideo dicimur, quia nihil eorum quae justificationem praecedunt, sive fides, sive opera, ipsam justificationis gratiam promeretur. Si enim gratia est, jam non ex operibus; alioquin, ut Apostolus inquit, gratia jam non est gratia.

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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