Complaint: Roman doctors are not consistent when answering Protestant charges
Under Protestant fire Rome grants peace-giving moral or conjectural certainty and a duty to pursue it.
Le Blanc’s complaint is inconsistency with how they speak when on the attack.
Latin
LI. Sed quod maxime querimur illud est, Ecclesiae Romanae Doctores in hac quaestione non satis sibi ipsis constare. Nam quum Protestantium argumentis, aut accusationibus, ipsis occurrendum est, testantur se non negare fidelibus & justis omnem de gratia Dei certitudinem: se quidem hic non agnoscere certitudinem illam quae fidei divinae dicitur, sed tamen admittere certitudinem aliam inferioris generis, nempe, moralem, juxta quosdam, quae in perfectioribus formidinem excludat: aut saltem, juxta plures, conjecturalem, quae semper cum aliqua formidine juncta sit, nisi adsit specialis quaedam revelatio: Et istam tamen tantam, ut non sinat hominem haesitare atque fluctuare, nec illum ancipitem & suspensum relinquat, & sic abunde sufficiat ad conscientiae pacem gignendam & fovendam, & hominem spirituali laetitia mulcendum. Adeoque palam affirmant fideles, pios & justos non debere de sua justitia, & remissione peccatorum suorum ambiguos & dubios haerere, verum certam de illa concipere fiduciam, quam si nondum adepti sint, eorum officium est ad eam precibus & votis frequentibus, & studio bonorum operum contendere.
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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