Theological Theses · §832 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Living and dead faith are one species; charity adds only external relative perfection

Rome refuses to make living and dead faith different species: they differ only by accidental perfection and remain one faith in species.

Faith may be found with or without charity while keeping its essence; charity when present adds only an external, relative perfection.

Latin

XII. Quodcunque vero discrimen constituant Scholae Romanae Theologi inter fidem vivam & mortuam, formatam & informem, nolunt tamen illas esse diversas fidei species, sed accidentali tantum perfectione inter se differre, & utramque esse unam & eandem specie fidem. Nempe fidei accidit, ut modo charitati conjuncta reperiatur, quandoque ab ea separatim existat, quod fidei est essentiale in utroque statu retinens, & a charitate quum adest accipiens perfectionem solum externam atque respectivam.

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