Collective-cause question is foundational — Pelagian risk
Collective-cause question = foundation of Christian faith.
Cause-in-man for the whole package → Pelagianism.
Would teach grace-from-merits and natural self-discerning — condemned.
Latin
XXXI. Porro prior illa quaestio de causa praedestinationis secundum omnes suos effectus consideratae, an scilicet, detur ex parte hominis, non est parvi momenti, & spectat ad fundamenta fidei Christianae. Nec enim affirmari potest dari causam ex parte hominis omnium effectuum praedestinationis, quatenus tam ad auxilia gratiae, quam ad gloriam coelestem refertur, quin incidatur in Pelagianismum, & negetur salutem hominis esse gratuitam, & ex sola Dei misericordia & benignitate in solidum pendere, non ex ullis operibus nostris, quod tam clare & constanter affirmat Evangelium: adeoque quin doceatur gratiam dari ex meritis, & hominem per naturae vires incipere seipsum ab alio discernere, & ad gratiam salutarem, aliquo saltem modo, praeparare atque disponere, quod tanquam Pelagianum, & Christianae gratiae adversum, pia antiquitas horruit & damnavit.
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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