Mortal repentance must be perfectly practical cessation; venial repentance cannot be
Mortal repentance must actually quit the whole class—or grace and glory are lost (Paul’s vice-lists).
Venial repentance cannot be ‘perfectly practical’ in that sense: no one lives without such faults, yet the godly are not thereby damned.
Latin
XLV. Tertio denique, quia poenitentia ad peccatorum mortalium remissionem, & ad salutem eorum qui ea committunt necessaria debet esse perfecte practica, hoc est, exire debet in realem & actualem ab omnibus hujus generis peccatis cessationem, ut videre est Prov. 28. 13. Joh. 5. 14. Nam si aliquis uno aut altero peccato mor-tali relicto, in alia subinde labatur, is neque gratiam in hac vita, nec gloriam in futura consequi poterit, ut docet Apostolus 1 Cor. 6. 9, 10. Galat. 5. 21. Contra vero poenitentia ad venialium peccatorum remissionem requisita, nec est, nec esse potest perfecte practica, quoad hujus generis peccata. Nam ut omnes fatentur, nemo sine hujus generis peccatis vivere potest: & per consequens, non periclitatur piorum salus, etsi ante finem vitae non possint hoc peccati genus effugere.
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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