The Spirit’s peace and joy in believers imply persuasion of divine favor

Spirit-wrought peace and joy cannot sit with doubt that one is accepted by God.

Believers who taste that joy may rightly conclude they stand in grace.

Latin

IX. Praeterea spiritus Christi in fidelium animis generat coelestem quandam pacem, & gaudium innarrabile. Nam ut docet Apostolus, Gal. 5. Fructus spiritus est charitas, gaudium, pax. Et Rom. 14. Regnum Dei est justitia & pax & gaudium in Spiritu Sancto. Quod gaudium & quam pacem experiri non potest, qui dubitat an sit Deo acceptus, & in ejus filiorum numero. Unde colligitur fideles qui tali gaudio & pace fruuntur, certo sibi persuadere posse se esse in Dei gratia. Neque enim quicquam delectare & exhilarare potest animum, nisi ex intimo & vivido sensu divini erga se amoris & favoris, & certa fiducia beatitudinis & gloriae aeternae.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

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Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)

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