Davenant’s triple ‘mortal’: irremissible Spirit-sin; remissible kingdom-barring guilt
Davenant’s first mortal: only the Spirit-sin’s irrevocable death-desert.
Second: remissible yet kingdom-barring guilt—Paul’s flesh-work catalogs until repentance restores life.
Latin
XXX. Notandum est, inquit, peccatum dici posse mortale, vel mortiferum tripliciter. Primo quod trahit secum meritum aeternae mortis absolutum, certum, & irrevocabile. Hoc sensu peccatum in Spiritum Sanctum solummodo habetur mortale. Secundo usitate vocatur mortale peccatum quod peccantem involvit reatu mortis aeternae, sed remissibili, quodque illum partem in regno Dei habere non sinit, donec per poenitentiam ad vitam redeat. Hujusmodi sunt illa omnia quae recensentur ab Apostolo 1 Cor. 6. Nolite errare, neque fornicatores, &c. regnum Dei possidebunt. Eadem doctrina Galat. 5. repetitur, Manifesta sunt opera carnis, quae sunt adulterium, fornicatio, &c. qui talia agunt regnum Dei non consequentur.
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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