Elect sins not remitted from eternity—only in time when contracted guilt is actually loosed
Decree ≠ execution: elect pardon is not eternal-actual but temporal-actual.
Guilt is contracted in time (original + actual); only then can it be actually loosed.
Latin
XV. Porro ex iis quae dicta sunt patet, Electis ab aeterno peccata remissa non esse, sed illis demum in tempore remitti. Contrarium quidem afferunt Theologi nonnulli: sed perperam confundunt Dei decretum cum ejus executione. Nam Deus ab aeterno quidem decrevit electis peccata remittere, sed in tempore tantum peccata illis actu remittuntur. Quid enim est peccata remitti, nisi actu solvi reatum mortis aeternae, qui peccatis ante contractus est? Jam autem reatum illum electi solum in tempore contrahunt: dum, scilicet, peccato originali infecti nascuntur, & postquam adoleverunt in varia peccata incidunt: adeoque reatu illo possunt actu solum in tempore solvi.
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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