Certainty of one’s justification is not the same kind as certainty of revealed articles of faith

Dogmatic certainty about revealed articles is necessary to remaining a believer.

Personal certainty that I am justified is not the same genus and is not itself a dogma of faith.

Latin

XXVI. Inde vero manifestum est certitudinem quam quis habet de sua coram Deo justificatione, non esse plane ejusdem generis & rationis, cum certitudine illa quam habemus de Fidei articulis, & dogmatibus quae Deus in Verbo suo revelavit. Haec enim in fideli omnino necessaria est. Nec quisquam potest fidelis permanere, & pro tali merito haberi; & tamen dubitare de fidei articulis, exempli causa, An Jesus sit Christus, & Dei filius; &, An mortui sint olim resurrecturi. Cum tamen, ut jam dictum, omnis qui dubitat an sit justificatus, & acceptus Deo ad vitam aeternam, non statim propterea judicandus sit carere vera fide, nec esse in Dei gratia, ut nec ullo modo potest pro dogmate fidei haberi, quod hic, vel ille sit justificatus, & gratiae divinae particeps.

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).

Witnesses

Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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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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