Fisher of Rochester: agrees veniality is of mercy; difference is grace-flight
Fisher grants Luther that ‘venial’ is of mercy, yet marks the real divide: mortal drives out grace and sets one in God’s hatred; venial does not.
Strictly judged, venial may be damnable—but that does not make it mortal in Fisher’s sense.
Latin
XVI. His consentanea docet Joannes Roffensis in Anglia Episcopus, in refutatione assertionis Lutheranae, ad articulum trigesimum secundum. Ubi postquam induxit Lutherum dicentem, veniale peccatum non natura sua, sed Dei misericordia tale esse, subjungit, Quod veniale peccatum solum ex Dei misericordia tale sit, in hoc tecum sentio. Sed quoniam & nos mortale quoque peccatum per Dei misericordiam fieri posse veniale credimus, vellem apertius nobis exponeres quid ipse discriminis arbitreris inter mortale & veniale peccatum statui debere. Illud vero discrimen ipse postea in eo constituit, quod mortale protinus effugit ab animo gratiam, & in odio Dei constituit ipsum peccatorem; at veniale non ita. Et paulo post concedit veniale peccatum esse damnabile; si districte judicetur. Inde vero negat sequi veniale peccatum mortale esse. Nam, inquit, mortale peccatum fugat a nobis gratiam, propter quam & merito damnandum venit, non autem identidem veniale. Quod discrimen abunde satis est, ut veniale dici mortale nequeat.
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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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