No sin too great for mercy—except the sin against the Holy Spirit
Faith and repentance open mercy for any atrocity—save the sin against the Spirit.
That sin means deliberate, malicious casting off of known truth; Hebrews 6 says renewal to repentance is impossible.
Latin
III. Vice versa vero docent nullum esse peccatum tam grave & tam atrox, quod veniam a Dei misericordia consequi non possit, mediante peccatoris fide & poenitentia: Excepto solum peccato, quod vocant in Spiritum Sanctum. Quo nomine intelligunt totalem, & ultroneam atque deliberatam, ex destinata malitia, divinae veritatis semel agnitae & gustatae abjectionem. Quod peccatum, nec in hoc, nec in futuro saeculo remittitur: Propterea quod impossibile est, qui in tale peccatum lapsi sunt renovari ad poenitentiam; juxta doctrinam Apostoli Heb. 6.
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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