Polish Thorn declaration: sins against conscience forfeit justifying grace for a time
At Thorn the Poles deny once-justified antinomian security: conscience-wounding relapse forfeits justifying grace and the Spirit for that time.
Infirmity-slips differ; without special exciting grace unto late repentance such falls leave the sinner damnable in deed.
Latin
XX. Poloni vero Theologi in declaratione suae sententiae, in colloquio Thoruniensi oblata, expresse docent renatos, quoties in peccata contra conscientiam recidunt, in iisque aliquandiu perseverant, nec gratiam justificantem, nec Spiritum Sanctum, pro illo tempore retinere; sed novum irae ac mortis aeternae reatum incurrere: cum res secus se habeat, quando non peccant contra conscientiam, sed ex infirmitate & inadvertentia. Etenim haec sunt eorum verba, Falso accusamur quasi statuamus semel justificatos Dei gratiam, ejusve certitudinem, & ipsum Spiritum Sanctum non posse amittere, quamvis in peccatis pro lubitu volutentur. Cum contra potius doceamus ipsos etiam renatos, quoties in peccata contra conscientiam recidunt, in iisque aliquandiu perseverant, nec fidem veram, nec Dei gratiam justificantem, nedum ejus certitudinem, aut Spiritum Sanctum pro tempore illo retinere; sed novum irae ac mortis aeternae reatum incurrere: ac propterea, nisi speciali Dei gratia excitante (quod in electis fieri non dubitamus) ad resipiscentiam serum renoventur, reipsa etiam damnandos esse. Titulo de Gratia, sect. 2. num. 11.
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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