Bringing to repentance and generating living faith suffices—no separate temporal absolving sentence required
Grace that brings true repentance and living faith is enough for actual absolution and reconciliation.
No extra temporal courtroom sentence—any more than guilt needed a fresh condemning sentence.
Latin
XIV. Proinde ut peccata homini remittantur, & ab iis censeatur apud Deum absolutus, ac Deo reconciliatus, sufficit ut Deus per gratiam suam peccatorem ad veram poenitentiam adducat, illique fidem vivam & efficacem ingeneret. Hoc enim posito, statim cessat homo obnoxius esse maledictioni & irae divinae, & incipit esse Deo gratus & acceptus ad vitam aeternam, vi alterius illius jam memoratae legis ab aeterno a Deo sancitae. Nec opus est praeterea alia quadam Dei actione, per quam remissio peccatorum in homine producatur proxime & immediate: aut ut Deus in tempore sententiam quandam pronuntiet, per quam peccator iste in singulari declaretur a Deo absolutus, & in gratiam a Deo receptus. Nec enim talis sententia magis necessaria est, ut homo apud Deum reus esse desinat, quam opposita quadam sententia opus est, ut homo post peccatum admissum, apud Deum reus poenae aeternae fiat. Cum ad utrumque abunde satis sit aeternum Dei decretum circa tum peccatores, tum poenitentes & fideles constitutum, & Evangelio solenniter promulgatum.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.