Historic/dead faith cannot justify—James and Galatians

Historic/dead faith—possible even in demons—cannot justify.

Paul equates justifying faith with love-working faith, new creation, and obedience.

Latin

V. Porro fides illa mortua, iners, & otiosa, quam Protestantes historicam vocant, justificare non potest. Nam diserte docet Jacobus ejusmodi reperiri posse in ipsis Daemonibus, illamque ad salutem, adeoque ad justitiam consequendam nihil prodesse. Quid proderit, inquit, fratres mei, si fidem dicat aliquis se habere, opera autem non habeat? numquid poterit fides salvare eum? Jac. 2. v. 14. Et postea, Tu credis Deum unum esse; bene facis: & Daemones credunt, & contremiscunt. v. 19. Unde est quod Paulus, scribens ad Galatas, affirmat nihil in Christo valere, nisi fidem quae per dilectionem operatur: & per consequens fidem ipsam, nisi per dilectionem operetur, eorum in numero esse quae nihil in Christo valent. Nam, inquit, in Christo Jesu neque circumcisio aliquid valet, neque praeputium, sed fides quae per charitatem operatur. Gal. 5. v. 6. Ac ne quis in eo fallatur, & charitate ac bonis operibus vacuus, fidei cujusdam inertis & otiosae nomine sibi blandiatur, aliis in locis eandem sententiam repetens, pro fide quae per charitatem operatur, modo novam creaturam, modo observationem mandatorum Dei substituit. Sic enim idem Apostolus, epistolae jam citatae cap. 6. commate 15. loquitur, In Christo Jesu neque circumcisio aliquid valet, neque praeputium, sed nova creatura. Et 1 Cor. 7. v. 19. Circumcisio nihil est, & praeputium nihil est, sed observatio mandatorum Dei. Ita ut Apostolo haec tria sint aequivalentia, Observatio mandatorum Dei, Nova creatura, & Fides per charitatem operans.

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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