Davenant’s close: defects in regenerate works are not appropriately second-sense mortal
Davenant’s hinge: work-adhering defects are true sins by law, yet not appropriately ‘mortal’ in the second sense.
They add no new death-guilt while the new man resists the old Adam’s tumult—unlike capital falls needing fresh repentance.
Latin
XXXIII. Quibus observatis probat defectus culpabiles, qui bonis renatorum operibus adhaerent, licet vere peccata sint, & secundum strictum legis rigorem mortem mereantur, & propterea quandoque a scriptoribus nostris mortalia nuncupentur, interea tamen non debere singulariter & appropriate, secundo, scilicet, sensu jam explicato, mortalia peccata vocari. Quod inter alia hoc argumento demonstrat; Illud peccatum appropriate mortale appellatur, quod inducit novum reatum mortiferum, donec eluatur novo actu poenitentiae. Sed peccatum quod adhaeret bonis operibus renatorum, utcunque juxta rigorem legis, posset damnare hominem extra Christum, tamen renatum & in Christo insitum non modo non damnat; sed neque novo aliquo reatu involvit. Nam cum quilibet renatorum habeat in se quasi duos homines, novum & veterem Adamum, quicquid vetus Adamus tumultuetur, & reluctetur legi, non imputatur homini renato & novo normam legis pro posse suo sequenti, & rebellionem concupiscentiae aversanti, & quantum in se est refrenanti.
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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