Constant thanksgiving for remitted sins is absurd without certainty of the gift
Believers must thank God for remission and rescue in Christ.
Thanksgiving without certainty of the gift is mockery, not gratitude.
Latin
XII. Praeterea perpetuum fidelium officium est Deo gratias agere, propter beneficia ipsis in Christo collata, remissionem, scilicet, peccatorum in Christi sanguine, & vindicationem a servitute peccati & potestate tenebrarum. Col. 1. Gratias agentes Deo & Patri, qui dignos nos fecit in partem sortis sanctorum in lumine: qui eripuit nos de potestate tenebrarum, & transtulit in regnum Filii dilectionis suae, in quo habemus redemptionem per sanguinem ejus, remissionem peccatorum. Et Ephes. 1. In quo habemus redemptionem per sanguinem ejus, remissionem peccatorum, secundum divitias gratiae ejus. Quae gratiarum actio frustranea esset & ridicula, si de acceptis beneficiis certi non essemus. Nam qui gratias agit de eo quod incertus est an ipsi donatum sit necne, illudere potius videtur quam gratum animum testari.
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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