Polish Thorun Confession: regenerate can lose true faith while in known sin
Polish Reformers at Thorn: false charge that the once-justified cannot lose grace while sinning at will.
Regenerate persevering in known sin retain for that time neither true faith nor justifying grace — new damnation-guilt unless renewed to repentance.
Latin
XXXVIII. Certe istud plane congruit cum doctrina Reformatorum in Regno Poloniae, ut manifestum facit eorum Confessio in Colloquio Thoruniensi exhibita. Falso, inquiunt, accusamur quasi statuamus semel justificatos, Dei gratiam, ejusve certitudinem, & ipsum Spiritum Sanctum non posse amittere, quamvis in peccatis pro lubitu volutentur, cum contra potius doceamus ipsos etiam renatos, quoties in peccata contra conscientiam recidunt, in iisque aliquandiu perseverant, nec fidem veram, nec Dei gratiam justificantem, nedum ejus certitudinem, aut Spiritum Sanctum, pro illo tempore, retinere; sed novum irae ac mortis aeternae reatum incurrere, ac propterea, nisi speciali gratia Dei excitante (quod in electis fieri non dubitamus) ad resipiscentiam iterum renoventur, reipsa etiam damnandos esse. Cap. 4. de Gratia. sect. 2. num. 11.
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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