First Protestant reason: every sin defiles; nothing defiled enters heaven apart from mercy

First proof: shut out mercy, and even the lightest fault forever bars heaven—so by nature it is mortal.

Defilement is universal; nothing unclean enters; cleansing and pardon alone reopen the gate.

Latin

LXIV. Rationes autem praecipuae quibus nituntur hae sunt. Et primo quidem omnia peccata ex se & sua natura mortalia esse probant, ex eo quod peccata etiam levissima, seclusa Dei misericordia & gratiosa condonatione, peccantem regno coe-lesti in perpetuum excludunt, ac proinde poenae aeternae mancipant. Quod enim peccato competit seclusa Dei misericordia, illi proculdubio natura sua & per se com-petit. Jam vero peccatum omne, quantumlibet leve videatur, in perpetuum regno coelesti excludere, seclusa Dei misericordia, inde manifestum est, quod peccatum quodlibet etiam levissimum, peccantem maculat atque coinquinat. Nihil autem coinquinatum ingreditur in regnum coelorum. Adeoque etiam ille qui vel levissime peccavit regnum coelorum intrare non potest, nisi prius Deus illum misericorditer emundet, & peccatum ei gratiose condonet.

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)
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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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