Vasquez: Trent allows fearing, not doubting; the just must absolutely believe they are in grace for the sacraments
Roman authorities insist the prudent just must not live in suspended doubt about grace.
Vasquez reads Trent as allowing fear, not doubt, and requires absolute belief one is in grace to use the sacraments.
Latin
XXVII. Haec manifeste colliguntur ex iis quae jam ex Vega, Stapletono, & ipso Bellarmino retulimus, ubi docent fideles & justos non oportere suspensos, dubios & anxios esse circa hoc an sint in Dei gratia, & ab iis alienam esse ejusmodi fluctuationem & haesitationem; adeoque qui sunt inter illos perfectiores, eo ipso habere pleniorem & firmiorem de propria gratia & justitia persuasionem. Sed praeterea diserte & expresse fatentur Theologi Scholae Romanae, justos de sua justificatione non posse dubitare, si prudenter se gerant; imo debere illos absolute credere se esse in gratia, si velint ea operari ad quae requiritur gratia, ut videre est apud Vasquezium, disp. pluries allegata, cap. 8. Observa, inquit, non dixisse Concilium quemlibet de sua gratia dubitare posse, sed de sua gratia timere posse, quod idem est atque formidare; omnis autem formido sine dubitatione oppositae partis esse potest. Dubitatio enim est haesitatio intellectus inter utramque partem contradictionis, ita ut in neutra parte ei appareat convenientia extremorum inter se, in cujus cognitione assensus consistit. Quamvis autem justus non sit dubius de sua justitia, quinimo sine dubio debeat absolute credere se esse in gratia, si velit aliqua operari ad quae requiritur gratia, ut administrationem & receptionem Sacramentorum; tamen etiam cum hoc absoluto assensu potest habere formidinem de sua justitia, &c. Cum igitur dicimus quemlibet justum de sua justificatione posse prudenter formidare, non intelligimus posse dubitare, si prudenter se gerat, & de neutra parte contradictionis judicare.
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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