British Dort judgment on David and Peter: justifying faith can cease for a time
British Dort theologians: regenerate David and Peter could fall into damnable guilt and lose present fitness for heaven.
Election made their final salvation certain; yet if death had taken them impenitent in those sins, neither could have been saved — justifying faith can cease for the interval before renewed repentance.
Latin
XLI. Profecto istud de Davide & aliis sanctis similiter lapsis expresse docent & affirmant Theologi Magnae Britanniae, in suo judicio circa quintum Remonstrantium articulum, quod actis Dordracenae Synodi insertum est. Ubi exemplis Petri & Davidis probant regenitos ac justificatos quandoque suo vitio in atrocia peccata incidere, & iis damnabilem reatum contrahere, & eorum merito, secundum Dei ordinationem, morti aeternae subjacere, & praesentem ad regnum coelorum ingrediendum aptitudinem amittere. Et consequenter affirmant, quanquam certum fuerit electos Dei servos Davidem & Petrum ad regnum coelorum perventuros, propter Dei electionem; tamen non minus certum esse, quod si ille in adulterio & homicidio, hic in Christi abnegatione & perjurio impoenitentes fuissent a morte deprehensi, neuter eorum salvus esse potuisset. Quibus subjungunt hanc Thesin, In illo interstitio, quod est inter contractum, ab homine, scilicet, electo & justificato, ex gravi peccato reatum, & fidei ac poenitentiae actum renovatum, stat talis peccator suo merito damnandus, Christi merito & firmo proposito absolvendus: non prius autem, quam per excitatam fidem ac poenitentiam veniam impetraverit, actu absolutus. Ex quibus aperte sequitur, juxta Theologos illos, fidem quae jam justificat, & per charitatem operatur, posse a charitatis operibus, quae sunt ad salutem necessaria, separari, & sic etiam ab actu justificandi cessare, & relinquere illum in quo inest damnationi aeternae obnoxium, pro illo tempore.
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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