Doubt whether one is in grace is a defect to fight, not a virtue to foster

Roman doctors do not praise lingering doubt about one’s gracious standing.

With Stapleton they treat such hesitation as a defect and temptation to be fought—especially when no unrepented grave sin accuses the conscience.

Latin

XXXI. Nec etiam, quod inde consequens est, inter eos quaeritur, Num dubitatio illa qua quis haesitat & fluctuat, super eo num sit in Dei gratia, & an Deum habeat propitium atque benevolum, sit aliquid in fideli laudandum & fovendum, An vero defectus & tentatio quaedam contra quam ipsi luctandum est, & ex qua modis omnibus niti debet ut se expediat: Istud enim audivimus modo fatentem Stapletonum, nec dissentiunt reliqui Scholae Romanae Theologi, qui facile concedunt fideles esse nimium, ut loquuntur, scrupulosos, si non arguente eos conscientia gravis alicujus peccati, cujus poenitentiam non egerint, de propria gratia dubitent.

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)
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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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