Whether trust is an act of the intellect, and how it differs from assent
Article XIX. Whether trust is an act of the intellect, and how it differs from assent.
1. Is trust in the intellect or the will? Papists commonly put it in the will. Orthodox distinguish.
2. As firm persuasion about God's promise, trust is an intellective act — not really distinct from faith's assent, but in reason: assent regards the testimony's truth; trust regards the promised good as applicable to me.
3. As loving motion and the will's resting on God, trust is a will-act — inseparable from faith in the justified, formally distinct.
4. Middle Orthodox view: justifying faith as assent and persuasion is in the intellect as proper subject; it belongs to the will by origin (will-commanded), concomitance (charity), and fruits.
Latin
ART. XIX. An fiducia sit actus intellectus, & quomodo differat ab assensu. 1. Quaeritur an fiducia sit in intellectu an in voluntate. Pontificii plerumque fiduciam ad voluntatem referunt. Orthodoxi distinguunt. 2. Fiducia, quatenus est firma persuasio & judicium mentis de DEI promissione, est actus intellectus, & non differt realiter ab assensu fidei, sed ratione: assensus respicit veritatem testimonii; fiducia respicit bonitatem rei promissae ut mihi applicabilis. 3. Fiducia, quatenus est amorosus in DEUM motus & recumbentia voluntatis, est actus voluntatis, a fide inseparabilis in justificato, sed formaliter distinctus. 4. Sententia Orthodоxa mediа: tota fides justificans est in intellectu tanquam in subjecto proprio quoad assensum & persuasionem; sed ad voluntatem pertinet ratione originis (a voluntate imperata), ratione concomitantiae (charitas), & ratione fructuum.
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Robert Baron — Philosophia theologiae ancillans from the 1658 Oxford Latin. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII On Being and Essence; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV On the origin of the soul and the propagation of sin. Later Exercitationes / remainder of 213 pp remain.
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Wing B887. IA bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_philosophia-theologi-an_baron-robert_1658. Exercitatio Prima Art. I-XII; Exercitatio Secunda Art. I-XV (De origine animae & propagatione peccati). Not whole Philosophia (213 pp). Exercitatio Tertia+ remain.
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