No Scripture makes justification an eternal decree; it follows faith and the Spirit
Scripture never equates justification with an eternal decree.
It is a temporal gift after faith/conversion, done by the poured-out Spirit (Tit 3; 1 Cor 6).
Latin
XIV. Et certe si quis percurrat omnia Scripturae loca, ubi de justificatione hominis mentio fit, ne unum quidem reperiet, ubi vel minimum indicium appareat, per justificationem intelligi aeternum quoddam Dei decretum. Imo vix unus est, ubi non occurrat aliquid, unde facile colligere liceat, per illam designari beneficium quoddam in tempore collatum, quodque hominis fidem & conversionem sequitur, non vero antecedit. Nam, ut omittam plurima illa loca, ubi dicimur, ex fide & per fidem justificari, & credere in Christum ut ex fide justificemur, quibus in locis fides manifeste proponitur, tanquam aliquid ad justificationem praerequisitum, justificatio semel tribuitur Spiritui Sancto in electos Dei effuso, & per illum fieri dicitur; argumento manifesto neminem, juxta mentem Scripturae Sacrae, justificatum esse, priusquam Spiritum Sanctum a Deo acceperit. Nam Tit. 3. v. 6. testatur Apostolus Deum in nos Spiritum Sanctum abunde effudisse, ut ex gratia ipsius haeredes simus secundum spem vitae aeternae. Et 1 Cor. 6. v. 11. fideles quos alloquitur dicit sanctificatos & justificatos fuisse, in nomine Domini Jesu, & per Spiritum Dei nostri.
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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