Second difference: obligation—works-covenant exacts all; grace-covenant still binds toward perfection
Works-covenant: strict, precise duty to shun even the lightest fault under eternal peril.
Grace-covenant does not erase that aim—it still obliges striving, grieving shortfall, and daily plea for pardon.
Latin
XXXIX. Secundo peccata ista inter se differre dicit ratione obligationis, qua ad ea vitanda obligamur. Ad cujus rei intelligentiam, notat primo foedus operum, sive legem praecise sumptam, obligare ad omnia & singula legis praecepta perfecte, quoad omnes particulas, conditiones, & circumstantias exactae obedientiae, servanda: & proinde ad vitanda omnia, etiam levissima peccata; idque stricte & praecise, sub peri-culo & poena aeternae damnationis. Secundo, foedus gratiae non simpliciter tollere obligationem legis qua nos ad omnes gradus, conditiones, & circumstantias perfectae obedientiae praestandas, & per consequens ad omnia, etiam levissima peccata fugienda obligat. Quoniam adhuc tenemur ad perfectionem illam, quantum in nobis est, eniti atque aspirare, & serio dolere quod ab ea deficiamus, ejusque rei veniam quotidianis a Deo precibus implorare.
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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