Becanus and Bellarmine deny first justification from merits
Becanus: first justifying grace and remission are not from merits; dispositions do not merit them.
Bellarmine: we are not received for any merit in us or for inchoate newness as meritorious reconciliation.
Latin
XXXIX. Ideoque Becanus queritur suos calumniam pati, quasi docerent impii justificationem, & remissionem peccatorum, esse ex meritis, non vero gratuitam: & asserit dispositiones quae praecedunt justificationem, tametsi bona opera sint, non ta-men mereri primam gratiam justificantem, & remissionem peccatorum: & consequen-ter primam justificationem esse mere gratuitam, nec ullo modo deberi nobis ex justitia. In Summa Theologiae Scholasticae, tom. 2. tract. 4. cap. 4. Similiter Bellarminus Re-mnium malae fidei accusat, quod dicat inter Protestantes & Ecclesiam Romanam in controversiam vocari, quid sit id, propter quod Deus hominem in gratiam recipiat? An sit meritum Filii Dei, an inchoata in nobis novitas? Ac proinde agnoscit nos in gratiam non recipi propter meritum ullum quod nobis insit, nec novitatem vitae esse meritoriam nostrae cum Deo reconciliationis. De Just. lib. 2. cap. 2.
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).
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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).
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- 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)
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