Davenant: conscience-wasting falls are singularly mortal; defects in good works are not
Davenant: singularly mortal are conscience-wasting falls that newly bind believers under death-guilt.
Flaws mixed into good works, though truly sinful by law’s rigor, are not appropriately called mortal.
Latin
XXIX. Simili modo videtur explicare distinctionem peccati in mortale & veniale, Joannes Davenantius Episcopus Sarisburiensis. Nam mortalia vocat ratione singulari peccata illa graviora quae conscientiam vastant, & novo mortis aeternae reatu constringunt fideles ipsos qui in ea labuntur, eosque, quamdiu ab iis non resurgunt, ineptos reddunt qui in regnum coelorum ingrediantur. Ad quod genus peccatorum non pertinere docet defectus qui bonis ipsorum operibus adhaerent atque intermixti sunt, licet peccati rationem habeant, & juxta summum legis rigorem mortem mereantur. Unde concludit ejusmodi defectus, peccata mortalia appropriate dici non debere. Ut apud ipsum videre est, De Justitia actuali, cap. 35.
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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