Still venial by nature: endless hell-penalty for it is only accidental
Perpetual hell-penalty for venial sin does not prove it merits hell of itself—the stuckness is accidental to dying in mortal sin.
In the living not under mortal sin, love and contrition can clear venial fault; unpaid debt would still be only temporal.
Latin
XXII. Inde tamen sequi negant peccatum veniale natura sua veniale non esse, & ex se poenam aeternam mereri. Quoniam qui non sunt in peccato mortali, si venialiter peccent, non propterea privantur gratia, charitate, & vita spirituali: ac proinde in iis peccatum istud facile tolli & deleri potest, per aliquem dilectionis & contritionis actum. Quo posito, etiamsi Deus poenae isti peccato debitae nihil condonare vellet, non ad poenam aeternam, sed ad poenam tantum temporalem obligati manerent. Quod autem in damnatis peccatum istud, nec quoad culpam tolli, nec etiam quoad poenam remitti potest; id esse tantum per accidens, & quia in illis conjunctum reperitur cum peccatis mortalibus, propter quae sunt in aeternum Dei gratia, & vita spirituali privati.
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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