Moral certainty excluding fear rejected by most Romans as clashing with Trent’s ‘may fear’
Most Roman theologians now reject fear-excluding moral certainty of grace.
Trent’s ‘anyone may fear regarding his grace’ is taken to bar certainty that banishes all fear.
Latin
XX. Verum haec sententia quae statuit homines justos, saltem perfectiores, habere posse de propria gratia atque justitia certitudinem, non quidem fidei, sed moralem, quae omnem non modo dubitationem, sed formidinem etiam excludat, hodie a maxima parte Theologorum Scholae Romanae rejicitur; idque quoniam ipsis non videtur satis congruere cum Tridentini Synodi decreto. Haec enim sunt verba istius Synodi, Sess. 6. cap. 9. Nam sicut nemo pius de Dei misericordia, de Christi merito, deque Sacramentorum virtute & efficacia dubitare debet; sic quilibet dum seipsum, suamque propriam infirmitatem, & indispositionem respicit, de sua gratia formidare & timere potest: cum nullus scire valeat certitudine fidei, cui non potest subesse falsum, se gratiam Dei esse consecutum. Ubi cum Concilium decernat quemlibet justum de sua gratia formidare & timere posse, planum est, ex ejus mente, fideles in hac vita non posse pervenire ad eam de propria gratia certitudinem, quae omnem formidinem & timorem ex iis, hac in parte, expellat.
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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