Theological Theses · §871 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

If Romans call dead faith justifying, they mean remote disposition only

When some Romans label dead idle faith justifying, they mean remote disposition, not actual justification.

Reformed press only that living efficacious faith disposes infallibly and proximately — and Rome agrees on that point.

Latin

LI. Quod si nonnulli Scholae Romanae Theologi justificantis nomen quandoque ipsi fidei mortuae & otiosae attribuunt, per id non significant illam actu justificare, sed solum illam ad justificationem non proxime, sed remote disponere. In hac autem quaestione Reformati non agunt de remota quadam dispositione, nec multum laborant, An fides etiam mortua sit istiusmodi quaedam ad justificationem remota dispositio. Sed id solum docere & asserere intendunt, nullam aliam fidem quam vivam atque efficacem homines ad justificationem infallibiliter & proxime disponere: qua in re assentientes habent Scholae Romanae Theologos.

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