Why the difference: mortal falls quit covenant-necessary obedience; lighter faults do not
Mortal falls break the obedience the grace-covenant requires for further gifts and the beatific vision—until extraordinary practical repentance.
Lighter infirmity-slips leave that precise salvation-obedience standing: Spirit-walk and whole-hearted following still named.
Latin
L. Hujus vero discriminis inter utriusque generis peccata rationem esse dicit, quod renati in atrocia, & conscientiam vastantia peccata prolapsi, praestare desinunt eam obedientiam quam foedus gratiae a nobis exigit, ut necessariam ad consequenda ulte-riora gratiae dona in hac vita, & ad obtinendam visionem Dei beatificam in vita fu-tura. Adeoque quamdiu fideles & renati gravibus & atrocibus illis peccatis impliciti manent, incapaces sunt istorum beneficiorum, non tantum demerito suo, sed etiam secundum sententiam foederis gratiae, donec per singularem, extraordinariam, & perfecte practicam poenitentiam ad Deum redeant, & omnem hujusmodi malignitatem actionum suarum ex adverso oculorum Dei amoveant. At quando electi & justificati leviora illa peccata, ex inadvertentia, aut infirmitate committunt, non desinunt prae-stare obedientiam illam, quam foedus gratiae, ut praecise necessariam ad salutem exigit. Atque iis non obstantibus, dicuntur secundum spiritum ambulare; imo & Deum toto corde sequi, & incedere in omnibus mandatis & constitutionibus Domini incul-pate.
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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