Roman doctors preface object- vs subject-certainty; the question concerns the latter

Roman doctors begin with Bellarmine’s distinction between certainty of the object and of the believing subject.

Object-certainty is the thing’s immutability; subject-certainty is firm assent without doubt—and that latter sense is the one at issue here.

Latin

I. Ut suam hac de re sententiam exponunt Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, multas certitudinis distinctiones praemittunt; ut videre est apud Bellarminum de Justificatione, lib. 3. cap. 2. Primo enim ipsis una est certitudo objecti, id est, rei cognitae, vel creditae; altera vero subjecti, id est, hominis cognoscentis, vel credentis. Prior certitudo est immutabilitas rei, quae revera aliter se habere non potest, quam creditur, vel cognoscitur. Qua ratione dicimus certum esse Deum esse bonum, peccatum esse malum. Posterior certitudo est firmitas quaedam assensus nostri ad rem quae credenda, vel cognoscenda proponitur. De qua certitudine loquimur, quum dicimus hac de re certus sum, hoc mihi compertum est; id est, ita firmiter adhaereo huic sententiae, ut prorsus de illius veritate non dubitem. Ad praesentem autem quaestionem pertinet certitudo non prioris, sed posterioris generis.

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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