Whether glory is due inherent justice: deferred; promise by fittingness
Whether glory is strictly due inherent justice is deferred to merits; works per se are owed nothing.
God promised the crown and will keep it by fitting goodness and promise-faithfulness—as saner Rome grants.
Latin
XXXVII. An autem justitiae quae per Spiritus Sancti gratiam fidelibus inest gloria debeatur, ut contendit Bellarminus, alia quaestio est, quam, Deo favente, alias expendemus, quum de bonorum operum meritis ex professo agemus. Id solum breviter dicimus, quantumlibet bonis hominum operibus per se nihil a Deo deberi: attamen Deum justitiae, & sanctitati fidelium, coronam vitae & gloriae coelestis liberaliter promisisse, & juxta promissa sua misericorditer simul & fideliter esse redditurum, quum olim mortuos & vivos judicabit. Qua in re non exercebit proprie dictam illam justitiam, qua aliquis exsolvit quod stricto jure debet, sed tantum justitiam communi quadam ratione sic dictam, quae est, ut vetustiores Scholastici loquuntur, condecentia bonitatis divinae, & ad quam pertinet fides in promissis servandis. Quod major & sanior pars Scholae Pontificiae nobiscum ultro fatetur & agnoscit.
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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