Theological Theses · §1278 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Protestants: every sin by nature merits eternal death and God’s wrath

Reformed consent opens Posterior: every sin, even the lightest in our eyes, deserves everlasting death if God deals by strict right.

The Mosaic curse on imperfect law-keeping sets the frame before any talk of lighter and heavier faults.

Latin

I. Theologi Protestantes ante omnia uno consensu constituunt peccatum omne natura sua, mortem aeternam, & Dei odium atque iram mereri; nec ullum esse peccatum, quantumlibet leve hominum judicio videri queat, quod non possit a Deo poena sempiterna puniri, & hominem Dei amore excludere, si Deus cum homine rigide agere velit. Juxta illud legis Mosaicae, Maledictus omnis qui non permanserit in omnibus quae scripta sunt in libro legis hujus.

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