Becanus’s five-point caricature of Calvinists

Becanus’s Calvinist cartoon: sins covered not removed; no infused justice; man stays impious within.

All works mortal sins under a cover; justification = occultation only.

Latin

XXVI. Ita Becanus Jesuita Theologorum nostrorum sententiam proponit & interpretatur in Summa Theologiae Scholasticae, Tom. 2. tract. 4. cap. 2. cujus titulus est De Justificatione ex sententia Calvinistarum, ubi audacter asserit ex Calvinistarum, quos vocat, sententia: 1. In justificatione non tolli peccata, sed tantum tegi & non imputari. 2. Nec infundi homini justitiam inhaerentem qua interius renovetur, & in se fiat justus; sed imputari illi justitiam Christi qua extra se justus habeatur. 3. Hominem manere igitur in se peccatorem immundum & impium, & solum censeri pro mundo, pio & justo propter alienam justitiam ipsi imputatam. 4. Et omnia ipsius opera esse immunda, spurca, inquinata, atque adeo peccata mortalia; tametsi non obstent illi quia per justitiam Christi teguntur & occultantur. 5. Hinc fieri ut justificatio non consistat in interna renovatione animi, aut sanctificatione, sed in sola peccatorum occultatione & non imputatione.

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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