Mortal sin: turns from God, kills spiritual life, risks hell if death finds it
Roman doctors treat mortal sin as incompatible with charity: it turns the soul from God and kills spiritual life.
If death finds such a sinner unraised by new grace, hell follows—and even the formerly just lose their standing.
Latin
IV. Igitur existimant esse quaedam peccata quae cum charitate & amore Dei compati nullo modo possunt, & in quae homo cadere non potest, quin a Deo prorsus avertatur, & inimicus ejus fiat, atque sic in totum privetur vita spirituali, quae consistit in nostra cum Deo conjunctione, per gratiam ejus in nobis habitantem, & incidat in novum reatum gehennae & mortis aeternae; quam vitare nullo modo potest, si in eo peccato a morte deprehendatur, & nisi ante mortem, ex eo peccato, per novam Dei gratiam resurgat, & de novo Deo se reconcilietur. Itaque si quis justus talia peccata committit, excidit omnino justitia sua; nec amplius pro justo & sancto haberi potest: neque in eo reperitur sanctificatio illa, sine qua nemo videbit Dominum. Et haec sunt quae vocant peccata lethalia; quia sunt veluti quaedam plagae lethales, quae mortem animae inferunt, vitam gratiae prorsus in ea extinguentes, & hominem gehennae, quae mors secunda in Scripturis dicitur, reum constituentes.
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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