Concupiscence is sin broadly (ψεικτόν); strict forensic sense distinguished (Davenant/Augustine)
Reformed call remaining concupiscence sin in the broad moral sense—blameworthy ψεκτόν against creation's order.
Strictly (Augustine/Davenant) it is not always forensic guilt-obliging sin; the broad/strict distinction reconciles Augustine.
Latin
XXIII. Nam istam concupiscentiam peccatum merito appellari contendunt, quoniam est aliquid malum in genere morum, Deo displicens atque odiosum, quodque rationi & legi divinae adversatur, & ab ordine a Deo in ipsa creatione constituto recedit. Quippe peccatum in genere, istis est qualibet mala dispositio, vel actio creaturae rationalis sua natura repugnans alicui legi creatoris, quae aut indita, aut praescripta fuit eidem creaturae. Ideoque pravas dispositiones, & vitiosos habitus, seu innatos, sive acquisitos, in fidelibus ipsis post justificationem eorum residuos, peccati rationem & naturam habere docent, quatenus personam in qua reperiuntur afficiunt modo contrario illi qui fuit a Deo in prima creatione positus: & sunt aliquid ψεκτόν, id est, vituperabile & malum, non simpliciter Physicum, sed Morale; quod cum peccato, in tota sua latitudine sumpto, converti & reciprocum esse censent. Concedunt tamen concupiscentiam quae in ipsis regenitis haeret non esse peccatum strictissima hujus vocis significatione, juxta quam peccatum quandoque, & ab Augustino praesertim, significat Malum ex ordinatione divina puniendum, & quod personam in qua reperitur in judicio divino ream actu constituit, & ad poenam obligat: ut videre est apud Joannem Davenantium, de Justitia habituali, cap. 9. & 13. Ubi distinguit, ut jam expositum est, peccatum in latius & strictius sic dictum; atque utitur ista distinctione ut conciliet dicta quaedam Augustini, quae in speciem contraria videntur, nempe, in quibus modo negat, modo affirmat concupiscentiam, quae in renatis manet, esse peccatum.
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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