If Romans call dead faith justifying, they mean remote disposition only
When some Romans label dead idle faith justifying, they mean remote disposition, not actual justification.
Reformed press only that living efficacious faith disposes infallibly and proximately — and Rome agrees on that point.
Latin
LI. Quod si nonnulli Scholae Romanae Theologi justificantis nomen quandoque ipsi fidei mortuae & otiosae attribuunt, per id non significant illam actu justificare, sed solum illam ad justificationem non proxime, sed remote disponere. In hac autem quaestione Reformati non agunt de remota quadam dispositione, nec multum laborant, An fides etiam mortua sit istiusmodi quaedam ad justificationem remota dispositio. Sed id solum docere & asserere intendunt, nullam aliam fidem quam vivam atque efficacem homines ad justificationem infallibiliter & proxime disponere: qua in re assentientes habent Scholae Romanae Theologos.
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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