Theological Theses · §1230

Cologne Catholics once spoke like some Protestants about certain belief of personal pardon

Even sixteenth-century Cologne Catholics once urged certain personal belief of pardon.

Le Blanc notes both Rome and many Reformed now refuse to make already-granted reconciliation the prior act of justifying faith.

Latin

XL. Verum est quidem Protestantes nonnullos sic loqui de illa persuasione quam fideles habent de gratia Dei & remissione peccatorum suorum, quasi in ea proprie consisteret fides justificans: sed eodem etiam modo loquuntur quidam quos Schola Romana pro Catholicis habet. Nam in libro edito a Canonicis Coloniensibus Anno 1536. in Concilio quodam Provinciali, qui liber Enchiridion Coloniense vocatur, haec expressa verba leguntur, Non jubemus ut perpetuo de justificatione & acceptatione sua dubitent homines, &c. Fatentur enim verum esse ad justificationem hominis omnino requiri ut homo certo credat, non tantum generaliter quod propter Christum vere poenitentibus remittantur peccata, sed quod ipsimet homini credenti remissa sunt propter Christum per fidem, &c. Quibus consentit liber qui dicitur Antididagma, & cujus authores sunt iidem Colonienses. Dicunt enim authorem illi, titulo de Justificatione, Nos justificari per fidem, qua absque dubitatione firmiter confidimus nobis qui veram poenitentiam habemus, peccata nostra propter Christum esse remissa. Ac quemadmodum Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae aliud jam hac de re sentiunt, sic rem eandem aliter explicant plerique saltem Theologi Ecclesiae Reformatae, nec inter actus fidei ad justificationem coram Deo praevios ponunt, ut diximus, persuasionem de facta jam nostri cum Deo reconciliatione, sed solum fiduciam de illa obtinenda.

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

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