Romans agree the just can have some certainty without special revelation; they differ on its kind
All Roman doctors grant the truly just some real certainty of grace without special revelation.
They disagree on its grade; Bellarmine counts three Catholic opinions.
Latin
XIV. His ita expositis, inter omnes Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae convenit, eos qui vere fideles & justi sunt, posse de propria gratia aliquo modo certos esse, & ad aliquam veram & legitimam de remissione peccatorum suorum, & sua coram Deo justificatione, certitudinem pervenire, etiam citra ullam specialem revelationem. Sed quae & qualis sit illa certitudo, & ad quod genus pertineat, inter eos non constat, & quaedam est in eorum Scholis sententiarum hac de re diversitas. Ut videre est apud Bellarminum, lib. 3. de Justif. cap. 11. §. Tres enim; ubi dicit inter Catholicos tres numerari de hac quaestione sententias.
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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