True righteousness is infused, not humanly acquired
This God-pleasing justice differs from civil/human virtue gained by repeated acts.
It must be divinely infused; those who receive it are said to be vivified, regenerated, newly created.
Latin
XV. Porro Justitia haec quae Deo tantopere placet, cuique vitam & gloriam aeter-nam pollicetur, multum ab humana & civili discrepat. Sed in eo praesertim, quod justitia humana industria & viribus humanis acquiritur. Constat enim habitibus vir-tutum moralium, quae crebro repetitis earundem actibus in anima paulatim forman-tur. Ad justitiam autem illam quam Deus gratam & acceptam habet humanae vires attingere non valent: nec quisquam ex se & propriis viribus, ad eam sese disponere & praeparare potest: sed, ut ex jam dictis satis evidens est, necesse est illam divi-nitus infundi, & in nostris animis coelesti gratia operante formari. Quandoquidem illi qui talem justitiam adipiscuntur, & Dei beneficio sancti justique evadunt, a Deo vivificari, regenerari, & de novo creari dicuntur. Cum ante essent in peccatis mortui, Joh. 3. 6. & ex carne geniti nihil essent nisi mera caro, Rom. 8. 8. in qua qui sunt Deo placere non possunt, sed sunt inimici Dei mente & operibus malis, Col. 1. 21.
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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