Living faith and repentance required, yet not meritorious

God requires living faith and serious repentance before imputing Christ’s merit.

Those acts are prerequisite conditions, not meritorious causes—grace remains wholly free for Christ’s sake.

Latin

XVI. Praeterea fatendum est Deum, ut nobis Christi satisfactionem & meritum imputet, & propter Christum nos peccatorum venia & filiorum adoptione donet, istud a nobis exigere, ut in Christum fide viva & efficaci credamus, veramque & seriam peccatorum nostrorum poenitentiam agamus. Nec enim deceret Dei sapientiam peccata remittere illis qui obstinate in peccatis perseverare volunt, & gratiae ac salutis participes facere illos qui Christi gratiam aspernantur, eumque tanquam Servatorem & Redemptorem suum, uti par est, agnoscere & colere recusant. Sed ne fides & poenitentia sint conditio quaedam a Deo praerequisita ut beneficium istud ab eo accipiamus, & sine qua non convenit nos ejus fieri compotes; nec fides tamen, nec poenitentia remissionem peccatorum & adoptionem filiorum merentur; neque causae sunt propter quam, & cujus dignitate, merito, & efficacia, tam eximiam gratiam consequimur. Sed tota & in solidum ad Christi obedientiam & meritum est referenda: quantum vero nos spectat simpliciter, & omni ex parte gratuita est, nec ullis nostris actibus, sive operibus, debetur.

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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