David's fall shows living faith can separate from charity's works for a time

Saints' falls prove living justifying faith can for a time lose charity's works without becoming absolute unbelief.

David's months of adultery and Uriah's murder (2 Samuel 11) kept Word-assent yet not saving love — under damnation-guilt for that interval.

Latin

XL. Ac sane rem ita se habere, & fidem quae nunc viva est & efficax, & per quam aliquis jam justificatus & sanctificatus est, a charitatis aliisque bonis operibus separari posse, & talem evadere, ut habentem non amplius justificet atque sanctificet, convincunt exempla virorum sanctorum, & viva ac salvifica fide proculdubio praeditorum, qui tamen in atrocia scelera inciderunt, & charitati plane repugnantia, & ad tempus notabile in iis perseverarunt; neque tamen propterea simpliciter & absolute infideles facti sunt, & Verbo Dei assensum praebere destiterunt. Ut res clara est in Davide, qui per aliquot menses non solum adulterio se polluit cum uxore Uriae, sed nefandum adulterium, proditione & caede ipsius Uriae viri optimi cumulavit: nec tamen interea fidem omnem Dei Verbo & Legi Mosis denegavit. Quis enim dicere ausit & sustineat, Davidem quamdiu tam diris criminibus indulsit, nihilominus eo ipso tempore dilectionem Dei & proximi retinuisse, & habuisse eam fidem, eumque Dei amorem, quae ipsum Deo placentem redderent, & ad vitam aeternam acceptum, & quae sunt illa conditio cui salus & gloria aeterna promissa est: ac non potius illum, isto temporis intervallo, aeternae damnationis reatu constrictum mansisse?

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)
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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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