James’s dead faith — no salvation; not worthy of the name ‘true faith’
James calls this dead faith — no motion or action, like a corpse.
It does not save; it worsens guilt and damnation.
Demons believe God is one and tremble — same sort of faith.
Protestants deny it the name ‘true faith’: true faith alone brings justice and salvation.
Latin
III. Et haec est fides quam Jacobus, epistolae capite secundo, fidem mortuam vocat; quia scilicet, omni motu & actione, non secus ac cadaver quoddam, destituta est. Adeoque nihil prodest ad salutem, sed potius culpam praegravat, & damnationem auget illorum qui in ea haerent. Juxta quod dicit ibidem Jacobus, Quid proderit, fratres mei, si fidem quis dicat se habere, opera autem non habeat? numquid poterit fides salvare eum? Quin ejusmodi fidem non veretur eodem loco daemonibus tribuere; Tu credis, inquit, quod Deus unus est, bene facis; & daemones credunt, & contremiscunt. Unde est quod Protestantes illam verae fidei nomine dignam non putant: quia videlicet, eorum judicio, ea sola fides vera meretur appellari quae justitiam & salutem affert illi qui ea praeditus est, quod ejusmodi fidei non competit.
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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