False hinge: grace need not hang on external signs — OT rites lacked NT sacramental force on Rome's own view
The whole attack hangs on a false hinge: that grace must ride on outward signs.
On that hinge Rome wonders how women were saved without circumcision — yet she forgets her own teaching.
She grants New-Testament sacraments alone that grace-working force; Old-Testament rites she calls shadows without power to work grace.
Stand by that, and circumcision itself was no remedy of original sin.
Latin
XVIII. Ad rem ipsam quod attinet dico, totam vim istius argumenti niti falsa quadam adversariorum hypothesi, nempe, quod gratia Dei necessario pendeat a signis quibusdam externis, quodque externus Sacramentorum actus vim habeat gratiam in nobis producendi. Hoc enim posito, mirum ipsis videtur qui potuerint foeminae salvari sub Veteri Testamento absque circumcisione, aut simili quopiam externo sacramento: Et tamen hac ipsa in re sui obliviscuntur. Nam quum de Sacramentis agunt, istam efficaciam & necessitatem tribuunt solis Sacramentis Novi Testamenti, non vero Sacramentis quae erant sub lege veteri, quae juxta ipsorum mentem erant tantum umbrae & figurae nostrorum, nec in se vim ullam habebant gratiam operandi. Ideoque si suis ipsorum placitis stare velint, neque circumcisio, nec ullus alius ritus sub Veteri Testamento potuit remedium esse peccati originalis.
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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