Roman calumny: Protestants make absolute certainty of pardon the essence of justifying faith
Romans often charge that Protestants make a firm persuasion of personal pardon the essence of saving faith.
They claim this certainty must match assent to Christ’s deity, that without it no one is truly faithful, and that it alone justifies even the vicious.
Latin
I. Inter varias calumnias quibus Protestantium Doctrina in Justificationis negotio impetitur, hae quoque frequenter occurrunt, Quod communi consensu doceant, Omnes & singulos homines posse & debere certa fide credere sibi fuisse remissa peccata, & se coram Deo justos esse. Id illis tam firmiter persuasum esse debere, quam hoc Jesum Christum esse Dei Filium & mundi Redemptorem, & similia fidei dogmata. Talem persuasionem ita necessariam esse, ut absque ea nemo vere fidelis & justus esse possit; non secus ac si credere detractaret aliquem ex praecipuis & fundamentalibus fidei articulis. In ejusmodi persuasione fidem veram & salvificam constituendam esse, tanquam in ejus actu proprio atque praecipuo. Adeoque homines tali fide, & quidem sola, coram Deo justificari, licet alioqui vitiis indulgeant, nec studeant bonis operibus.
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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