Gerson: every offense against God is of itself deadly; veniality is mercy
Gerson and allies: every sin could justly earn eternal death; milder imputation is God’s clemency, not the act’s own mildness.
He concludes that any offense against God is of itself deadly and cuts off from glory under justice’s rigor.
Latin
XI. Etenim nonnulli sunt inter Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, & quidem non infimae notae, qui docent omnia peccata juste a Deo morte aeterna puniri posse; quod vero quaedam eorum ad poenam solummodo temporalem imputantur, nec mortis aeternae reatum in peccantem inducunt, & idcirco a peccatis mortalibus distinguuntur, id tribuendum esse Dei clementiae atque indulgentiae, quae hac in parte toto suo jure erga hominem uti non vult. Haec est sententia Joannis illius Gerson, qui ante annos plus minus ducentos sexaginta Academiae Parisiensis Cancellarius fuit, & inter Theologos Sorbonicos celeberrimus, quam prolixe tradit & tuetur in tractatu quem inscribit de Vita Spirituali, lectione prima. Ubi agens de quidditate & quantificatione peccatorum, ut loquitur, hanc ponit conclusionem, Omne peccatum, pro quanto est offensa Dei, & contra legem ejus aeternam, est de sua conditione & indignitate mortiferum, secundum rigorem justitiae, & a vita gloriae separativum.
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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