Theological Theses · §2694 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

The regenerate lack none of these

Thesis XXIV. On all these counts, the obedience of the truly godly, those reborn by God's Spirit, lacks nothing. They serve God not with the body alone but bring mind and affections under his will. They not only do in deed what the law commands; in doing it they aim at God's glory and are moved by love for him.

Their concern is not to obey merely this or that commandment; they try to conform themselves to God's whole law and to every one of its commandments. And they do so not merely for a while, as long as things go well, but also when temptations and persecutions break upon them: to their last breath they keep God's commandments before their eyes and measure their actions by that rule.

Latin

XXIV. Horum omnium respectu nihil deest obedientiae eorum qui vere pii & per spiritum Dei regeniti sunt. Nec enim corpore tantum Deo serviunt, sed mentem & affectus voluntati ejus subjiciunt. Nec solum opere praestant quae lege praecipiuntur; sed etiam in eo gloriam Dei spectant, & amore illius moventur. Non his, aut illis mandatis duntaxat obedire satagunt; sed universae legi Dei & singulis ejus mandatis sese conformare nituntur. Nec solum ad aliquod tempus, & quandiu res prospere fluunt, sed etiam quum ingruunt tentationes & persecutiones, & ad ultimum usque vitae spiritum mandata Dei ob oculos habent, & actiones suas ad eorum normam exigunt.

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