Condign vs congruous merit: all grant free gift; some call living faith congruous
Condign = wage from justice; congruous = fitting gift from goodness—no debt.
All Rome: first justification is free gift; 'congruous merit of faith' only means living faith fittingly obtains pardon.
Latin
XLVI. Porro per meritum de condigno intelligunt opus cui merces ex justitia debetur, per meritum autem de congruo opus cui nihil quidem debetur ex justitia, sed quod a bonitate divina aliquid impetrat, cuique decet bonitatem & aequitatem divinam aliquid tribuere. Itaque consentiunt Doctores omnes Ecclesiae Romanae peccatorum remissionem, & justificationem hominis peccatoris esse donum Dei gratuitum, & ex justitia non deberi fidei. Quod vero dicunt eorum nonnulli fidem illam mereri de congruo, per hoc non aliud significatum volunt, quam fidem quae per dilectionem operatur peccatorum veniam & justificationem a bonitate divina impetrare, & congruum esse divinae bonitati & sapientiae, ut peccatorem, qui fide efficaci per bona opera, ad misericordiam Dei in Christo confugit, a peccatis absolvat & justitia donet.
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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