Formed and unformed: external form for salvation-profit, not essence
Reformed reject informis/formata as if charity were faith inner form; Rome means only an external form that makes faith profit for salvation, not essence.
Aside from the barbarous, unscriptural phrasing, Le Blanc finds nothing else to blame in that Roman usage.
Latin
XLVII. Vicissim vero Theologi Reformati non probant quod Schola Romana fidem illam mortuam & otiosam, fidem informem vocat, fidem vero formatam illam quae activa est, & per dilectionem operans; quasi charitas esset forma fidei. Sed per hoc Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae significatum volunt charitatem esse fidei formam internam & proprie dictam, quae essentiam illius absolute constituat, quod merito videtur Reformatis absurdum; sed solummodo formam quandam externam, a qua fides non habet simpliciter quod sit, sed tantum quod valeat & prosit ad salutem: in quo certe praeter locutionem ipsam, quae in se barbara est, & Scripturae inusitata, nihil est quod merito reprehendi debeat.
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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