Venial from cause: infirmity and ignorance obtain mercy more readily than destined malice
Second sense: sins of infirmity and ignorance are ‘venial’ as nearer mercy—Paul’s persecuting ignorance.
Destined-malice sins win pardon harder and more often meet eternal death; Rainolds backs the distinction.
Latin
XXVI. Similiter agnoscunt aliquo sensu venialia dici posse peccata, quae ex causa sua hoc habent, ut facilius veniam consequantur: quoniam non ex certa & destinata malitia sunt; sed ex infirmitate & ignorantia. Prout Apostolus ait se fuisse blasphemum, & persecutorem, & contumeliosum; sed misericordiam consecutum, quia ignorans fecerat in incredulitate. Unde Deus pater miserationum facilius est commotus, ut ei qui non ex malitia peccaverat, veniam largiretur. Et hoc sensu venialia peccata opponuntur iis, quae cum ex destinata malitia committantur, rarius & difficilius misericordiam & veniam impetrant, & saepius morte aeterna puniuntur. Quam distinctionem refert & probat Joannes Rainoldus Anglus de Libris Apocryphis, lectione 26.
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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