Third reason: what may never be remitted may justly be forever punished—even in the just, absolutely speaking
Third proof: never-remissible ⇒ justly forever-punishable.
Remission is mercy by definition—so absolutely, even for the just, God could withhold pardon of the lightest faults and punish them forever.
Latin
LXVI. Tertio peccata quae dicuntur venialia, ex se poenam aeternam mereri sic probatur, Quod potest nunquam remitti, potest in aeternum puniri, idque juste. Peccata autem quaevis, etiam levissima, in quacunque tandem persona reperiantur, ab-solute loquendo, possent nunquam remitti: quoniam peccatum quodvis, quum a Deo remittitur, ex misericordia & gratia remittitur; quod importat ipsum nomen remis-sionis. Quicquid autem Deus ex gratia & misericordia facit, id simpliciter & absolute loquendo, posset non facere: & proinde ipsis justis, simpliciter loquendo, & sine respectu ad promissiones in Evangelio gratuito factas, posset Deus ipsa levissima peccata non remittere, adeoque illa in aeternum punire.
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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