Opponent quotes Le Blanc's Thesis I listing Rome's four imputed calumnies on justification
To convict Le Blanc, the opponent cites Thesis I's list of calumnies Rome often pins on Protestants regarding justification:
(1) all persons can/ought by certain faith believe their sins remitted and themselves just before God;
(2) with the same firmness as believing Christ is God's Son and world's Redeemer;
(3) such persuasion so necessary that without it none is truly faithful/just;
(4) true saving faith consists in that persuasion as its proper chief act — justifying even the vicious without good works.
Le Blanc names Bellarmine and Becanus as sources who suppose or expressly fasten these on the Reformed.
Latin
CXXIX. Atque ut criminis illius me convincat, profert primam Thesium illarum quas vellicandas sibi proposuit. Verba Theseos sunt, Inter varias calumnias quibus Protestantium Doctrina in Justificationis negotio impetitur, hae quoque frequenter occurrunt. Quod communi consensu doceant, omnes & singulos Homines posse & debere certa fide credere sibi fuisse remissa peccata, & se coram Deo justos esse. Id illis tam firmiter persuasum esse debere, quam hoc, Jesum Christum esse Dei filium & Mundi Redemptorem, & similia fidei dogmata. Talem persuasionem ita necessariam esse, ut absque ea nemo vere fidelis & justus esse possit, non secus ac si credere detrectaret aliquem ex praecipuis & fundamentalibus fidei articulis. In ejusmodi persuasione fidem veram & salvificam constituendam esse, tanquam in ejus actu proprio atque praecipuo: adeoque homines tali fide, & quidem sola, coram Deo justificari, licet alioqui vitiis indulgeant, nec studeant bonis operibus. Istud praesertim videre est apud Bellarminum & Becanum Jesuitas, qui talia vel supponunt, vel etiam expresse & diserte nobis affingunt, in suis contra nos disputationibus.
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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