Simplest: faith justifies because it is imputed to the believer for righteousness
Simplest: faith justifies because it is imputed to the believer for righteousness (Rom 4).
God counts the living believer just for Christ's death and obedience.
Latin
XXII. Simplicissimum nobis videtur si dicamus, fidem justificare, quia credenti, sua fides imputatur ad justitiam. Sic enim Apostolus ipse mentem suam explicat, de justificatione per fidem ex professo agens, Rom. 4. Credenti, inquit, in eum qui justificat impium, reputatur fides ejus ad justitiam. Et in hunc finem citat illud Mosis, Credidit Abraham Deo, & reputatum est ei ad justitiam. Fides autem ad justitiam imputari dicitur, quia Deus illum qui viva fide in Christum credit pro justo habet & reputat, eum a poena peccati liberans, & ad vitam aeternam acceptans, propter Christi mortem & obedientiam.
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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