Theological Theses · §1249

Proper sense: lighter sins that do not break charity or earn hell

In the proper Roman sense, venial sins are lighter faults that do not war with charity or incur hell’s debt.

Mortals are the graver acts that cannot coexist with love of God and make one liable to eternal punishment.

Latin

III. Denique peccata venialia ex natura & ratione peccati, illis dicuntur peccata leviora, quae, ut ipsi judicant, cum proximi charitate non pugnant, & aeternae poenae reatum non inducunt. Et haec est apud ipsos propria venialis peccati acceptio. Atque hoc sensu sumpta peccata venialia simpliciter & absolute opponi censent peccatis mortalibus; quo nomine designant peccata graviora, quae cum charitate & amore Dei consistere non possunt, & hominem apud Dei tribunal aeternae poenae reum constituunt.

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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