Principal object still Christ grace and mercy (Stapleton; Trent sess.6)
Rome still grants that justifying faith chief object is God grace and mercy in Christ offered in the Gospel to believing penitents; Stapleton confirms this from Trent sess. 6 c. 6.
Christ the Mediator and his redemption are principal when faith disposes to justification, yet not the sole proper object; faith also regards the other revealed objects while that disposition is underway.
Latin
XXII. Non negant tamen fidei justificantis objectum praecipuum & potissimum esse Dei gratiam & misericordiam in Christo peccatoribus credentibus atque poenitentibus per Evangelii promissiones oblatam. Id inter alios concedit & agnoscit Thomas Stapletonus, suamque hac in parte doctrinam verbis Concilii Tridentini confirmat, libro 8. de Justificatione, cap. 12. ubi loquens de facta per Christum redemptione, Hoc, inquit, objectum non unicum respicit fides, sed certe maxime & potissimum, quando hominem disponit ad justificationem. Quod & his verbis Patres Tridentini docuerunt, Sess. 6. cap. 6. Disponuntur ad justitiam credentes vera esse quae divinitus revelata & promissa sunt: atque illud in primis a Deo justificari impium per gratiam ejus, per redemptionem quae est in Christo. Fides ergo justificans, seu disponens ad justitiam, principaliter quidem respicit Christum ut Mediatorem, & redemptionem per illum factam, non tamen unicum & proprium est illud fidei justificantis objectum, ut volunt haeretici, cum tot praeterea alia objecta fides respiciat, dum ad justificationem disponimur, ut dictum est.
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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