Stapleton denies the calumny: penitents should by certain trust, not by infallible faith, judge sins remitted
Stapleton rejects the charge that Catholics strand penitents in endless doubt.
Penitents should judge sins remitted by certain trust of hope, not by infallible faith-certainty.
Latin
XXVIII. Praesertim vero expressa est hac de re Stapletoni doctrina, lib. 9. de Justif. cap. 20. ubi postquam questus est Catholicis per calumniam a Protestantibus tribui, quod doceant peccatorem in seria poenitentia & vera fide constitutum, nec posse, nec debere certa fiducia statuere peccata sibi remitti: posse quidem bene sperare, & de Dei misericordia optima quaeque sibi polliceri; sed haec tamen sine certa fiducia in medio fluctuantis dubitationis suspensa esse relinquenda, quia fidei possit subesse falsum, & spes possit fallere, sic inter alia suorum sententiam exponit: Non negamus, inquit, debere poenitentes certa fiducia statuere sibi remitti peccata; sed negamus certa fide, cui subesse falsum non potest, hoc esse a quoquam statuendum. Certam autem fiduciam, qualem spei certitudo affert, agnoscimus & docemus. Et postea, Non relinquimus peccatorem in medio fluctuantis dubitationis suspensum, postquam poenitentiae rite peractae sibi conscius est. Et cap. sequenti, loquens de Patribus & de Doctoribus Ecclesiae Romanae, Docent, inquit, vere poenitentes, & qui suam indispositionem serio corrigunt, non debere de remissione peccatorum suorum dubitare, sed certa fiducia confidere.
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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