Eternal decree to remit vs actual remission in time—do not confuse them
Eternal decree prepares every grace the elect will enjoy—including pardon.
Yet decree ≠ actual remission: God remits only by making them cease to be penalty-liable.
Latin
III. Porro Deus ab aeterno decrevit electis omnibus omnia omnino peccata remittere. Nec enim in tempore ulla gratia fruuntur, quae ipsis ab aeterno praeparata & destinata non sit. Sed multum distingui debet decretum de condonandis, sive remittendis electorum peccatis, ab actuali peccatorum illorum remissione & condonatione. Aliud est enim praestare ut electi definant reapse obnoxii esse poenis quas peccatum meretur, & aliud decretum formare de hoc ipso olim praestando. Sicut aliud est electum sanctificare, & aliud futuram ejus sanctificationem decernere. Deus autem non aliter electis peccata remittit, quam praestando ut cessent obnoxii esse poenis, ad quas peccatum eos obstringit.
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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