Infused virtues real righteousness, yet cannot stand strict divine judgment
Infused faith-hope-charity is real righteousness in God's sight—yet cannot stand strict judgment without mercy.
Even the perfect must pray Ps 143:2; last-day reward is of gospel promise, not bare legal standing.
Latin
XLIX. Sed quamvis existiment justitiam illam, per quam formaliter coram Deo justificamur, constare fide, spe & charitate, nolunt tamen fidem, & virtutes caeteras constituere justitiam ullam, quae possit ferre rigidum judicii divini examen: ita ut, si Deus fideles districte judicare velit, nec uti erga eos ulla clementia & misericordia, possint per justitiam sibi infusam atque inhaerentem, damnationem vitare, & sperare vitam aeternam. Agnoscunt enim fideles, etiam maxime perfectos, quum se coram severo Dei tribunali sistunt, teneri cum David dicere, Ne intres in judicium cum servo tuo; non enim coram te justificabitur ullus vivens. Idque tum propter peccata, quae justificationem eorum antecedunt: tum propter illa in quae justificati ex infirmitate quotidie labuntur. Itaque mens eorum solum est, virtutes ipsas per Spiritum Sanctum fidelibus infusas, esse formam illam a qua fideles in Scriptura justificati, & justi coram Deo denominantur: & constituere justitiam veram & synceram, non tantum hominum, sed Dei quoque ipsius judicio: quamque Deus quum judex sedebit ultimo die, ex Evangelio mundum judicaturus, solenniter probabit, laudabit, & praemiabitur vita & gloria aeterna.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
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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