Reformed deny faith as disposing/formal cause of forensic absolution
Reformed: justify = forensic absolution; faith neither merits nor is the righteousness that absolves—Christ's obedience alone is.
Faith is the necessary condition; this need not clash with Rome once senses are sorted.
Latin
LIV. Cum autem Reformati distinguant justificationem a sanctificatione, & per justificari non aliud intelligant, quam in judicio divino absolvi, quando negant fidem nos justificare per modum dispositionis, aut per modum formae, id est, ut justitiam, seu partem justitiae per quam justificamur, mens eorum est, fidem non esse talem dispositionem, quae remissionem peccatorum nostrorum mereatur, vel efficiat: & etiam fidei, vel actum, vel habitum, non esse partem justitiae illius, propter quam, & cujus merito a reatu peccatorum nostrorum absolvimur, quae est sola Christi obedientia; licet sit conditio sine qua istam absolutionem consequi non possumus: quod non pugnat cum doctrina Ecclesiae Romanae.
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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