Native corruption remains fractured but not eradicated in this life
Native corruption's remains stay in mortal life: fractured so they no longer reign or damn the grafted-in, yet not eradicated.
Believers feel strong evil-tilt and flesh-Spirit war until death.
Latin
XVIII. Etenim quamdiu in hoc mortali corpore degimus, perpetuo manent in nobis pravitatis & corruptionis nativae reliquiae. Illa quidem eos qui sunt per veram atque vivam fidem Christo inserti amplius damnare non potest, & felicitate aeterna excludere: ac praeterea per Christi gratiam ita fracta & debilitata est, ut amplius in iis non regnet, sed spiritui cedat atque subjiciatur. Veruntamen non est penitus sublata & eradicata. Unde est quod fideles ipsi sentiunt se multum ad malum proclives, & in bene agendo difficultatem magnam experiuntur. Nec in iis ad mortem usque cessat, carnis adversus spiritum rebellio, quae legi divinae repugnat, illosque in diversum trahit, & contra quam ipsis perpetuo luctandum.
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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