Brentius takes justification to include renovation; Protestants spare him

Brentius folded renovation into justification; Melanchthon pushed back on the mechanism.

Gerhard: wider Latin sense of the term is not itself the Pontifical error—Protestants spare Brentius.

Latin

XXXII. Imo inter Theologos Confessionis Augustanae celeberrimus Joh. Brentius ita accipit vocem justificationis, sub qua hominis renovationem comprehendi existimavit, eamque suam sententiam Epistola ad Melancthonem hac de re scripta testatus est, ut patet ex Melancthonis ad ipsum responsione, quae legitur in Consiliis ejusdem Melancthonis, pag. 245. Imaginaris, inquit ad Brentium, fide justificari homines, quia fide accipiamus Spiritum Sanctum, ut postea justi esse possimus; videlicet, impletione legis, quam efficit in nobis Spiritus Sanctus. Neque tamen propterea quisquam Protestantium gravioris censurae notandum putavit Brentium. Quem, inquit Johannes Gerardus, ut propterea erroris Pontificii de justificatione reum suspicari velimus, quod termino justificationis, in latiori significatione, Latinae vocis compositionem secutus utatur. Loc. Theol. tom. 3. cap. de Justit. per fidem, num. 245. ubi prolixum citat Brentii hac de re locum, ex ejus Apologia Confessionis Wirtembergensis, de Justificatione.

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).

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