Theological Theses · §1347

Remission defined: the debt is paid and liability to penalty ceases

Remission = the debt paid and penalty-liability ended; retention = still bound to punishment.

So pardon is the end of exclusion-from-favor and of law-threatened obnoxiousness.

Latin

II. Quum debitum illud solvitur, & cessat homo obnoxius esse poenis illis quas justitia divina a peccatoribus exigit, homini peccata remitti dicuntur: retineri vero quamdiu peccator, eorum respectu, manet apud Deum ad poenam obligatus. Adeoque remissio peccatorum in eo consistit, quod qui antea erat a favore Dei exclusus, & poenis quas lex Dei transgressoribus minatur obnoxius, talis esse definit.

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

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