Faith not meritorious cause; first justification mere grace (Trent sess. 6 ch. 8)
Rome: faith is not the meritorious cause; passage into grace is mere gift through Christ alone.
Trent: nothing preceding justification—faith or works—merits justifying grace.
Latin
XLIV. Praeterea Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae agnoscunt fidem non justificare, tanquam causam meritoriam remissionis peccatorum nostrorum, & doni justitiae: quumque homo ex statu peccati in statum gratiae transfertur, justificationem ejus esse mere gratuitam, nec ullis nostris meritis deberi, sed divinae gratiae, per Christi solius merita nobis partae, unice esse ascribendam. Quod expresse definivit Concilium Tridentinum, eadem Sess. 6. cap. 8. Gratis autem ideo justificari dicimur, inquit, quia nihil eorum quae justificationem praecedunt, sive fides, sive opera, ipsam justificationis gratiam promeretur; si enim gratia est, jam non ex operibus: alioquin, ut Apostolus inquit, gratia jam non est gratia.
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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