Chemnitz: no fight over words if Fathers teach reconciliation rightly

If remission is free in Christ's merit alone, extending justify to cover inward renewal is no crime.

Chemnitz: no word-fights with Fathers who rightly teach reconciliation, remission, adoption.

Latin

XXXI. Neque etiam, modo quis fateatur remissionem peccatorum nostrorum omnino gratuitam esse, & in solo Christi merito fundatam, nec ullam esse piorum justitiam & opera bona, quae possint ferre severum & rigidum judicii divini examen, crimen esse existimant, si quis ita extendat vocem justificationis, ut internam nostram renovationem sub ea complectatur. Agnoscunt enim a Patribus vocem istam saepius hoc sensu usurpatam esse, nec tamen iis propterea litem movendam censent. Sic enim loquitur Chemnitius in Examine Concilii Tridentini, Nequaquam tales sumus turbatores, qui verae & solidae, & salutaris concordiae ita simus iniqui, & adeo cupidi contentionum, ut etiamsi de rebus ipsis constituta esset pia & salutaris consensio, quaesituri tamen essemus materiam rixarum, ex verborum pugnis. Patribus enim, licet plerunque verbum justificare accipiant pro renovatione, qua efficiuntur in nobis per Spiritum opera justitiae, non movemus litem, ubi juxta Scripturam recte & commode tradunt, quomodo & quare persona Deo reconcilietur, acceptat remissionem peccatorum & adoptionem, & acceptetur ad vitam aeternam. In Exam. Conc. Trid. de Justif. pag. 129.

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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