Faith alone means living efficacious faith as sole instrument

Sola fide means living, work-bearing faith—not dead idle faith—as sole condition/instrument.

Romans agree on the thing itself when calumny is stripped away.

Latin

XXV. Denique quando dicunt nos fide, & quidem sola, justificari, intelligunt fidem vivam & efficacem per bona opera, minime vero fidem mortuam atque otiosam, esse solam conditionem, quam Deus a nobis exigit, ut per Christum simus participes remissionis peccatorum, Deoque ad vitam aeternam accepti: sive solum & unicum ex parte nostra instrumentum, quo tantum beneficium percipimus & apprehendimus; quae certe omnia tantae sunt veritatis & evidentiae, ut citra calumniam exposita atque intellecta, a nullo cum aliqua specie negari possint, imo de illis nobiscum, quoad rem ipsam, consentiant Ecclesiae Romanae Doctores, sicuti jam aliquot Disputationibus manifestum fecimus.

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)
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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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