'All men' means Gospel hearers in external communion — even the vicious — not only the faithful
Pareus was unnecessary: Le Blanc's own theses already prove Reformed common doctrine that each of the faithful can and ought be certain of grace without special revelation, and that such certainty is commonly called faith-certainty — so lack of it marks infirmity, not unbelief of the fundamentals.
The opponent's conjecture fails: 'all and each men' did not mean only the faithful.
Nor did Le Blanc mean Rome charges a duty on absolutely every human without exception; he meant all Gospel hearers in external church communion — even the vicious.
Latin
CXLIII. Sed nihil opus fuit viro docto hic citare Paraeum. Nam ipsae meae Theses, quas illi carpere libuit, integrae fere in eo insumuntur, ut probent secundum communem Reformatorum doctrinam, 1. Fideles singulos absque speciali revelatione, posse certo credere se esse in Dei gratia: 2. Fideles singulos, non tantum posse, sed etiam debere ea de re certo persuasos esse; & si de eo certi non sint, istud quendam defectum & quandam infirmitatem, in eorum fide arguere: 3. Denique Certitudinem illam communiter apud Reformatos certitudinem fidei vocari. Itaque vir Doctus in sua conjectura fallitur. Nam per omnes & singulos homines, non intellexi solummodo omnes & singulos fideles. Nec tamen mens mea fuit Reformatos accusari ab Ecclesiae Romanae Doctoribus, quod doceant omnes homines in universum, absque ulla exceptione, teneri certo credere se esse in Dei gratia. Verum per omnes & singulos homines intellexi omnes & singulos quibus annuntiatur Evangelium, & qui sunt in externa Ecclesiae communione; etiamsi alioqui flagitiose vivant & vitiis indulgeant.
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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