In saving faith distinguish the direct act (embracing Christ) from the reflex act (recognizing one’s faith)
Assurance is not justifying faith’s formal act, yet may be called a reflex secondary act of that faith.
The direct act embraces Christ; the reflex act reads one’s own faith and its fruits.
Latin
XXVIII. Imo quamvis, ut jam probatum est, certa illa persuasio, quam fidelis habere potest de remissione peccatorum suorum, & sua cum Deo per Christum reconciliatione, non sit formalis actus fidei justificantis, aliqua tamen ratione pro fidei illius actu haberi potest. Quod ut intelligatur, in fide salutari atque justificante duplex actus distinguendus est. Unus directus, atque primarius. Alter reflexus & secundarius. Directus est ille quo fidelis Christum, ut Redemptorem & Servatorem nostrum, agnoscit atque amplectitur, & in eo salutem & justitiam quaerit. Reflexus vero ille est quo fidelis in propriam fidem reflectitur, eamque recognoscit; illiusque effecta, timorem, videlicet, & dilectionem Dei, & charitatem erga proximum, in corde suo sentit & experitur. Unde colligit se Christo vere insertum esse, ejusque gratiae & beneficiorum revera participem.
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)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- 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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