Molinaeus: justification from eternity — faith gives the sense of it
Du Moulin (Sedan): justification is from eternity — part of the election decree — unlike regeneration, which begins in time.
Sense of justification is given to believers at a certain time; regeneration’s start is first sparks of faith and first motions of repentance.
On his hypothesis: sins remitted before the sinner believes.
Faith justifies only inasmuch as through faith we have the sense of justification.
Latin
LXXI. Nec videtur ab hac sententia alienus Petrus Molinaeus, saepius jam citatus, & Theologiae in Academia Sedanensi Professor. Hic enim justificationem censet esse ab aeterno, & in eo differre a regeneratione, quae fit in tempore, & habet initium. Nam loquens de justificatione hominis coram Deo, Illa, inquit, est ab aeterno & ante saecula, quippe pars decreti electionis, quamvis ejus sensus detur fidelibus certo tempore. At haec nempe regeneratio, fit in tempore, & habet quoddam initium, nempe primas scintillas fidei, & primulos motus poenitentiae. De Justificatione & Fide justificante, part. 1. Thesi 54. Proinde, ex ejus hypothesi, peccatori peccata remissa sunt antequam credat, nec aliter fides justificat, quam quia per fidem habemus justificationis sensum.
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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