Estius: charity perfects faith so it merits; one habit is not another's subject
Estius: charity is not faith's essential form, and one habit is not another's subject.
Rather, through charity faith is perfected and formed so as to be meritorious and to profit to eternal salvation — as charity is called the form of all other virtues.
Latin
V. Sic Scholae Romanae mentem explicat Gul. Estius: Non enim, inquit, charitas forma fidei dicitur, quasi ad essentiam fidei pertinens, aut quia fidem proprie informet, cum unus habitus non sit subjectum alterius. Sed hactenus, quia per charitatem aliud, fides perficitur & formatur, ut meritoria sit, & ad aeternam salutem proficiat, quomodo & aliarum omnium virtutum forma charitas appellatur. Ad Distinct. 23. lib. 3. Sententiarum, paragr. 3.
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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