Rome distorts Reformed denial of inherent formal justification
Rome hears “justified by imputed, not inherent” and charges denial of all inward holiness.
Calumny: believers stay impure within; imputation only covers, never removes, sin.
Latin
XXV. Porro haec sententiae Orthodoxae explicatio probe animadvertenda est contra Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, qui Reformatorum hac in parte doctrinam aut non intelligunt, aut malitiose detorquent. Quum enim audiunt Scholae Reformatae Doctores passim dicentes, nos coram Deo justificari, & justos constitui per justitiam Christi quae nobis imputatur, non vero per ullam nobis inhaerentem justitiam, inde colligunt nos non agnoscere justitiam ullam quae fidelibus insit, & cujus ratione vere apud Deum justi & sancti censeantur, nosque traducunt quasi doceremus fideles semper in se impios, immundos, & injustos manere: Christi vero justitiam ad hoc solum illis imputari ut peccata eorum tegantur, non tollantur. Ac proinde, quum fideles justi & sancti in Scriptura vocantur, denominationem istam non sumi ab aliqua forma, sive justitia quae ipsis inhaereat, sed a sola justitia Christi, quae cum extra eos sit, illos tamen denominet, quoniam illis a Deo imputatur.
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.