Theological Theses · §1315

First difference: avoidability—habitual and assisting grace can shun atrocities, not daily lighter faults

Baron’s first cut: avoidability under grace.

Habitual plus assisting grace can keep the regenerate from Paul’s listed atrocities; daily ‘venial’ slips no saint outruns for life.

Latin

XXXVIII. In sequentibus autem prolixe recenset varia discrimina inter peccatum quod mortale, & inter illud quod veniale vocat. Et primo quidem dicit peccata mortalia a venialibus differre ratione evitabilitatis, hoc est, ratione virium quas per Dei gratiam habemus ad ea vitanda. Potest enim, inquit, homo regenitus vi & subsidio gratiae, partim internae, seu inhaerentis, quae habitualis dicitur, partim externae seu assistentis, quam gratiam auxilii specialis vocant, potest, inquam, vitare illa carnis opera manifesta, illa peccata atrocia, quae 1 Cor. 6. 9, & 10. & Galat. 5. 19, 20, 21. recensentur. Illa vero leviora peccata, quae venialia vocantur, nullus sanctorum per eam gratiae mensuram quam Deus iis in hac vita admetiri solet, diu vitare potest, nedum toto tempore vitae suae.

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

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