Resolution: same species or number; only living faith actually justifies
Rome holds living formed faith the same species (even same number) as dead, yet living surpasses by external accidental perfection; only living efficacious faith actually saves and justifies.
Salvation-texts they refer to living formed faith; not-yet-formed as disposition means active faith beginning to work and birth charity, not idle speculation (Stapleton; Vasquez).
Latin
XLIX. Sed ad mentem eorum penitius intelligendam, in memoriam revocandum est illos docere quidem fidem vivam & charitate formatam esse eundem specie habitum cum informi & mortua fide: imo eandem numero fidem ex mortua vivam, & ex viva mortuam successive fieri posse: sed tamen eos non negare quin fides viva mortuam superet perfectione, saltem externa & accidentali, per quam una ab altera merito distinguitur. Deinde illos quoque communi consensu fateri solam fidem vivam atque efficacem posse hominem actu servare & justificare, illam vero quae mortua & otiosa manet salutem hominis nihil promovere, neque quicquam facere ad hominem justificandum. Adeoque longe plurimi Ecclesiae Romanae Doctores loca illa ubi salus & justitia fidei tribuitur, de fide viva & formata exponenda esse contendunt, & ad eam solam referenda, ut supra fuit a nobis observatum. Quod si qui dicant fidem nondum formatam ad justitiam hominem disponere, & esse justitiae & salutis initium, fundamentum & radicem, per fidem nondum formatam non intelligunt fidem otiosam & mere speculativam, sed fidem quandam actuosam, quae incipit esse per bona opera efficax, quaeque charitatem quodammodo parturit, licet illam adhuc non sit plene adepta, ut patet ex iis quae supra ex Stapletono & Vasquez citata sunt.
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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