Faith justifies as disposition (act) or as part of formal cause (habit)
Rome: faith-as-act disposes for justification; faith-as-habit is part of infused righteousness.
Their 'justification' includes forgiveness and interior renovation (sanctification).
Latin
XLVII. Caeterum fidem justificare dicunt per modum dispositionis, aut etiam tanquam justitiae partem & initium; quo respectu revocatur fides ad causam formalem justificationis. Ad cujus rei intelligentiam, observandum est Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae per justificationem non significare solam a peccatis absolutionem, sed renovationem quoque interioris hominis, quam sanctificationis nomine designamus. Ac praeterea fidem duobus modis ab illis accipi: Et 1. quidem pro actu fidei, qui per actuale Dei auxilium in anima excitatur, priusquam adepta sit gratiam habitualem: 2. Pro fidei habitu, qui cum habitibus spei & charitatis, in jam credentis animam infunditur. Priori modo sumpta fides justificat, ex eorum mente, per modum dispositionis: quia per illam anima praeparatur & disponitur ad accipiendam a Deo remissionem peccatorum, & simul quoque justitiam illam habitualem, a qua justi sanctique fideles in Scriptura vocantur. Fides vero sumpta posteriori modo pertinet ad causam formalem justificationis: quoniam est pars novae illius justitiae, quam Spiritus Sanctus in fidelibus creat, & per quam illos vere & reapse justos, sanctosque constituit.
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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