Reformed confess inherent justice and a secondary formal sense
Rome fights a monster we do not teach: we confess Spirit-cleansing and infused inherent justice.
Besides forensic absolution we allow with Davenant/Poles a secondary formal justification by inherent virtue.
Latin
XXVII. Atque inde est quod Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, existimantes nos ejusmodi monstra sub doctrina de imputatione justitiae Christi tegere & alere, illam tam acriter impugnant. Sed, quam ab eo simus alieni ex vera & genuina sententiae nostrae expositione manifestum fecimus. Siquidem ultro confitemur, & eum qui justificatur simul intus a peccatis per Spiritum Sanctum mundari, & fidelibus infundi justitiam inhaerentem, qua interius renoventur, & in se justi fiant. Neque dicimus fideles apud Deum pro mundis, piis & justis censeri, licet in se impii & immundi maneant, sed illos revera pios, mundos, & sanctos per Spiritus Sancti gratiam fieri: Multa quoque eorum opera agnoscimus pia, sancta & justa esse, non simpliciter spurca & immunda, atque adeo peccata mortalia. Ac denique praeter justificationem illam judiciariam, quam ad solum Christi meritum & justitiam referimus, quamque constituimus in absolutione a reatu mortis & perditionis, quam legem Dei violando, apud severum ejus tribunal commeriti sumus, fatemur cum Davenantio, de Just. habituali, c. 21. Damus quandam, ut ita loquamur, justificationem, cujus causam formalem justitiam nobis inhaerentem dici non improbamus. Et cum Theologis Polonis, in sua Confessione, cap. 4. Non negamus etiam dici posse fideles per charitatem aliasque virtutes infusas justificari, id est, justos effici & censeri.
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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