Fourth reason: the legal covenant demanded flawless obedience—any lightest fault lost life and incurred curse
Legal covenant with upright Adam: life only by number-perfect obedience—any lightest fault lost life and drew the curse.
No pardon-lane under law-alone; repentance and remission belong to the gospel covenant—so every sin is mortal by nature.
Latin
LXVII. Praeterea Deus cum homine integro foedus legale pangens ab eo exigebat obedientiam undequaque perfectam, & omnibus suis numeris absolutam, tanquam conditionem sine qua non poterat vitam aeternam & beatam assequi, & maledictionem divinam effugere. Jam autem perfectio illa, quam lex in rigore suo, & prout primum fuit homini lata postulat, excludit omne peccatum, etiam levissimum. Ac proinde quolibet peccato etiam levissimo, homo integer poterat vita aeterna excidere, & ma-ledictionem divinam incurrere. Unde manifesto sequitur omne peccatum, quantum-libet leve, esse natura sua mortale, non veniale. Quod vero sub foedere legali, homo integer quolibet peccato promissione vitae aeternae excidisset, inde patet quod sub illo foedere, nullus erat locus veniae & remissionis, cujus promissiones Evangelico foe-deri propriae sunt. Neque lex praecise sumpta, & ut Evangelio & gratiae opponitur, locum dabat poenitentiae, absque qua peccatum omne vita coelesti in aeternum exclu-dit.
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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