Today Rome denies persuasion of own remitted sins as faith-act; Cologne/Cassander dissent noted
Present Roman consensus refuses to make persuasion that one has obtained mercy and remitted sins part of saving justifying faith; such persuasion is treated as rash presumption, not the act by which one is justified.
Cassander cites earlier Cologne Enchiridion theologians who required believing not only general remission for penitents in Christ, but also that one own sins are remitted through faith, together with a new penitent affection.
Latin
XXXIII. Praeterea Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, hodie saltem, communi consensu ad fidem salvificam & justificantem pertinere nolunt, ut quis persuasus sit se misericordiam a Deo consecutum esse, & sibi remissa esse per Christi gratiam peccata. Ac ejusmodi persuasionem negant esse fidei actum, & potius ad temerariam quandam praesumptionem spectare existimant: nedum ut putent per illam hominem justificari. Fuere tamen nonnulli superiori saeculo in Ecclesia Romana Theologi, iique non incelebres, qui senserunt & scriptis publice mandaverunt ad justificationem hominis omnino requiri, ut homo certo credat, non tantum generaliter quod propter Christum vere poenitentibus remittantur peccata, sed etiam quod ipsi homini remissa sint propter Christum per fidem. Hanc sententiam Georgius Cassander, in consultatione ad articulum quartum Confessionis Augustanae, tribuit Theologis Coloniensibus, quorum verba recitat ex libro quem ediderunt anno superioris saeculi trigesimo sexto in Concilio quodam suae dioeceseos, cuique titulum fecerunt Enchiridion Christianae Religionis. Ubi, teste eodem Cassandro, sic legitur: Dicimus hominem per fidem donum justificationis tum demum accipere, quum & perterrefactus & concussus in poenitentia rursus erigitur per fidem, credens sibi esse remissa peccata propter meritum Christi, qui in se credentibus remissionem peccatorum pollicitus est, & quum novum in se sentit affectum, quo detestatur malum, & carnis infirmitati resistens, ad bonum secundum Deum accenditur, tametsi affectus nondum perfectus sit.
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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