Calumny rejected: inherent justice not denied
False charge: Reformed deny all inherent justice and teach bare external imputation.
We impute only to living faith with Spirit-wrought renovation; imperfect inherent justice cannot absolve at the severe bar.
Latin
XXII. Et postea multas a se calumnias amolientes testantur nos falso accusari, quasi omnem inhaerentem justitiam fidelibus negemus, eosque sola externa justitiae Christi imputatione, quae sit sine ulla interna renovatione, justificari statuamus. Cum tamen solis poenitentibus, & viva fide in Christum credentibus justitiam imputari, simulque per eandem fidem a Spiritu Sancto corda contrita vivificari, ad ardentem erga Christum charitatem & novae obedientiae studium excitari, a pravis videlicet cupiditatibus mundari, atque ita justitiam & sanctitatem vitae novae inchoari, & in dies perfici doceamus. Id tantum addimus, inquiunt, per hanc inhaerentem justitiam propriam, quia in hac vita imperfecta est, neminem coram severo Dei judicio posse consistere, aut in ea confidere, ut a reatu mortis per eam justificetur, seu absolvatur; sed per & propter solam perfectissimam Christi justitiam & meritum viva fide apprehensum.
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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