Perfect love casts out fear; doubt of justification cannot coexist with perfect charity

Perfect love drives out punitive fear; lingering doubt of grace cannot coexist with it.

John’s teaching makes uncertainty about one’s justification a defect charity excludes.

Latin

XV. Praeterea, non potest non esse defectus vituperabilis id quod perfecta charitas expellit, quodque cum ea consistere non potest. Sed cum incertitudine de justificatione & gratia propria perfecta charitas non potest consistere. Nam, ut docet Joannes, Perfecta charitas foras mittit timorem; quoniam timor poenam habet: qui autem timet non est perfectus in charitate. 1 Joan. 4. Adeoque qui de Dei erga se amore & favore dubitat, necessario timet; nec potest non timere, timore illo qui poenam secum habet. Adeoque perfecta charitas compati non potest secum ejusmodi dubitationem.

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

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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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