Either acceptation of justification: free by faith; quarreling superfluous

Whether justify = bare acquittal or also inward righteousness, we are still free by faith, not of works/law.

Paul's aim stands either way—living love-working faith, not Do this and live; lexical quarrel is superfluous.

Latin

XLIII. Cum ergo, sive vocabulum justificationis restringatur ad solam a reatu absolutionem, sive etiam ad novae & internae justitiae adeptionem extendatur, aequaliter verum sit nos gratis, per Christi gratiam, fide, non ex operibus, & sine operibus legis justificari: nec etiam, sive hoc, sive illo modo sumamus justificationem, quicquam officiat Apostoli scopo, qui unicus est docere, ad hoc ut simus salutis & justitiae participes, non opus esse legem Mosaicam, & foedus operum, sive legale observare, juxta solemnem clausulam, Fac & vives: sed sufficere ut Christi Evangelio credamus, fide viva, & quae per dilectionem operetur, neque alia ratione homines peccatores, justos coram Deo fieri & reputari posse: cum haec, inquam, ita se habeant, superfluum videtur hac de re litigare, nec est quod propterea cuiquam molesti simus, quod apud Apostolum justificationem sic, vel sic accipiat, quandoquidem in eo vera fides, & sana doctrina nihil periclitatur.

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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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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