Grace softens rigor: precise duty for attainable measure; vow-and-endeavor for degrees beyond ordinary grace
Grace removes the law’s terror without erasing the duty: attainable ordinary-grace obedience is still exacted under eternal peril.
Beyond that, ‘degrees’ perfection is owed in vow and endeavor—not as a strict act-condition of life.
Latin
XL. Tertio foedus gratiae, etsi obligationem istam simpliciter & omnino non tollat, tollere tamen rigorem, seu severitatem & terribilitatem istius obligationis. Quamvis enim, inquit, universam justitiae perfectionem nobis ob oculos ponat ut affectandam, & pro viribus assequendam, non tamen stricte & praecise sub periculo & poena aeternae dam-nationis eam exigit. Nam ad certam quidem obedientiae mensuram, quae videlicet per gratiam ordinariam est possibilis, stricte & praecise, hoc est, sub aeternae damnationis periculo obligat, exigendo ut eam actu habeamus. Ad ulteriorem vero mensuram, quam viribus gratiae ordinariis assequi non possumus, obligat minus stricte, videlicet, exi-gendo ut eam habeamus saltem in voto & conatu. Verbi gratia, ad perfectionem partium, ut vocant, obligat praecise. Nam non aliter vitam aeternam promittit, quam hac conditione ut eam actu habeamus. Ad perfectionem vero eam, quae graduum dicitur, non tam stricte & praecise obligat; sed tantum exigit, ut pro viribus gratiae nobis concessa eam assequi studeamus & conemur.
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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