Protestant imperfecta means incomplete in degree
When Protestants call inherent justice inchoate and imperfect, they mean it never reaches the highest degree on earth.
It must daily advance until consummated hereafter; the regenerate keep defects until death.
Latin
XXV. Huc vero non alio spectant quae Theologi Protestantes docent de imperfec-tione justitiae illius quae per Christi gratiam fidelibus inhaeret. Etenim, quum per-tendunt illam inchoatam duntaxat & imperfectam esse, non perfectam atque absolutam; id non aliud significatum volunt, quam justitiam istam in terris nunquam attingere ipsum perfectionis & excellentiae gradum, quin plurimum ab eo abesse: ideoque per gradus varios quotidie augendam, & promovendam esse; donec tandem in vita fu-tura plene consummetur & perficiatur. Ac praeterea fideles quantumcunque in justitia & sanctitate profecerint, suos semper habere defectus, & multis lapsibus manere ob-noxios, donec corpus hoc mortale exuerint.
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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