Dead unformed faith still first disposition to justice (Stapleton)
Even after granting with Stapleton that dead unformed faith profits neither salvation nor justice, Roman doctors still call faith as such, charity present or absent, the first and most necessary disposition toward justice.
In itself faith is the soul first act of union with God; by not-yet-formed faith charity is sought so that faith may later be formed, provided the prayer faith prompts is used (Stapleton, De Justif. 8.17).
Latin
XVII. Porro quamvis Scholae Romanae Theologi fateantur & agnoscant fidem mortuam & informem ad salutem non prodesse, & ad justitiam esse inutilem, quod inter alios expresse, idque multis in locis, asserit Thomas Stapletonus, docent tamen fidem in se, & ex sua natura, sive adjunctam habeat charitatem, sive non, esse primam & maxime necessariam dispositionem ad justitiam consequendam. Quoniam, scilicet, fides in se spectata est primus animae actus quo Deo conjungimur. Adeoque per fidem quae nondum formata est impetratur charitas qua postea formetur, si tamen id fiat quod fides suggerit, id est, si oratio fidei adhibeatur. Ut videre est apud eundem Stapletonum de Justificatione, lib. 8. qui est de Fide justificante, cap. 17.
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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