Formed vs unformed: charity is external improper form making faith meritorious
The usual Roman School distinction is formed versus unformed faith: unformed is faith alone without charity; formed is faith joined to charity and love.
Charity is called faith's form — not an internal essence-constituting form, but an external, improper form that gives faith a relative standing: it profits to eternal life and is, they say, meritorious of salvation.
Latin
IV. Eodem redit distinctio in Scholis Romanis plurimum usitata, per quam fidem distinguunt in formatam atque informem. Nam fidem informem vocant illam quae sola est & sine charitate, fidem vero formatam illam quae est cum charitate & dilectione conjuncta. Docent enim charitatem esse fidei formam, non quidem internam & proprie dictam, quae fidei absolute & in se consideratae essentiam constituat; sed formam quandam externam & improprie dictam, quae esse quoddam externum & respectivum fidei tribuit; nempe quod prosit ad vitam aeternam, & sit, ut loquuntur, salutis meritoria.
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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