Theological Theses · §938

Some Protestants make forensic sense perpetual; most allow real change

Some Protestants claim forensic sense is perpetual and never means real change.

Most (and Le Blanc) disagree: Dan 12 justify many = instruct unto righteousness.

Latin

VI. Porro hanc perpetuam esse vocis justificandi in Scriptura sacra significationem, neque unquam illa designari realem immutationem, per quam aliquis ex impio justus sanctusque efficitur, affirmant quidam inter Protestantes. Sed plerique aliter sentiunt, & meo quidem judicio, magna cum ratione. Nam verbum istud in aliquot Scripturae locis non, nisi dure & coacte admodum, potest admittere sensum illum forensem, neque justificari significat solum justum declarari, vel pronunciari, sed revera pium justumque fieri. Talis est omnium fere judicio locus qui habetur apud Danielem, cap. 12. Qui docti fuerint fulgebunt quasi splendor firmamenti; & qui justificant multos, quasi stellae in perpetuas aeternitates. Ubi per eos qui multos justificant, non intelliguntur illi qui multos justos habent, sive declarant, sed, ut habet versio Vulgata, qui ad justitiam erudiunt multos; aut, ut vertit nostra vernacula, qui ad justitiam multos introducunt: adeo ut justificare idem ibi sit quod justum reddere doctrina & exemplo vitae.

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

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