Borrheus and Reformers: Scripture sometimes uses justification for sanctification
Even many Reformers grant Scripture sometimes uses justification to cover sanctification.
Borrhaus (if citations hold): Pauline justify/glorify packs reconciliation, Christ's righteousness, regenerating gift—dissension verbal, not real.
Latin
XXXIII. Et certe quum vox justificationis, etiam plerorumque Reformatorum judicio, in Scriptura eo sensu quandoque usurpetur, ut ipsam hominis sanctificationem videatur complecti, jure damnari non possunt, qui caeteroqui sanam doctrinam retinentes, hoc vocabulo notione in Verbo Dei consecrata utuntur, quod inter Reformatos fecit Martinus Borrheus, olim in Academia Basiliensi Professor, si vera sunt quae citari video ex illius Commentario in Gen. cap. 15. ubi haec verba illi tribuuntur, inter plura ejusdem generis: Ut igitur Beatus Paulus, in justificatione nostra, quum ait, Quos justificavit eos glorificavit, comprehendit omnia, quae ad reconciliandos nos Deo Patri, & ad renovationem nostri aptam assequendae gloriae pertinent, ut sunt fides, justitia Christi, & donum justitiae a Christo exhibitum, quo regeneremur ad implendam justificationem quam lex requirit, ita etiam nos omnia in hac causa, quae recuperatione justitiae & innocentiae continentur, complecti volumus. Haec autem quum traduntur, non nova, sed confessa omnibus & veteribus & nostris, sacrarum litterarum Professoribus, qui quidem recte & vere dicerent, traduntur: nisi fortassis quadam distinctione dicuntur a nobis, quam vulgo dicunt in hoc justificationis negotio, sed in re ipsa abesse dissensionem, nequaquam dubitamus. Etenim omnes in impiorum justificatione, haec comprehendi monent, Christum justitiam nostram; remissionem peccatorum morte illius nobis partam; Spiritum Sanctum ob imputatae & ascriptae justitiae Christi nobis donatum; quo freti & peccatorum gratiam nobis fieri per fidem credamus; & renovationem nostri, qua Deum syncere diligendo, mediitemur, &c. Sed liber iste nobis ad manum non est.
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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