Second opinion: perfect just may reach moral certainty excluding fear, like historical human faith
The second Roman view denies divine-faith certainty of grace but allows moral certainty without fear.
It likens that security to our firm historical belief about Caesar, Virgil, or distant cities never seen.
Latin
XVII. Secunda sententia quae circa hanc quaestionem locum habet in Schola Romana, non docet quidem teste Bellarmino, justos habere posse de propria gratia certitudinem fidei divinae; tamen affirmat posse, imo etiam solere praesertim homines perfectos, pro hujus vitae statu, ad eam securitatem venire, ut nullam habeant de sua justificatione formidinem: plane ad eum modum quo credimus sine ulla haesitatione, & formidine deceptionis, Caesarem imperasse in Italia, Alexandrum in Graecia; Ciceronem Oratorem, Livium Historicum, Virgilium Poetam fuisse; Constantinopolim esse Urbem in Thracia, & Antiochiam in Syria, quamvis neutram viderimus. Quae certitudo illa est quae proprie moralis dicitur, & distinguitur a conjecturali.
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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