Certainty arises from promise plus inward sense of living faith and repentance
Assurance is not bare assent to general gospel promises.
It requires the reflective subsumption: I myself have the living, loving faith God requires.
Latin
XXXV. Et certe qualiscunque tandem sit illa certitudo, & quocunque nomine in Christianis Scholis appelletur, in eo conveniunt omnes omnino Theologi illam non oriri solum ex divina promissione, sed etiam ex interno sensu propriae fidei & resipiscentiae, sine quo nemo recte concludere & statuere potest justitiam, vitam & salutem Verbo Dei promissam ad se pertinere, & se ejus esse, vel fore participem. Nam ut hoc aliquis legitime concludat, non sufficit ut assentiatur generalibus illis Scripturae pronunciatis, Quicunque credit in Christum remissionem habebit peccatorum in nomine ejus, Qui credit in Filium non veniet in judicium, sive damnationem, sed transivit a morte ad vitam; Sed necesse est ut vere subsumat, Atqui ego credo, id est, in me sentio & experior fidem illam quam Deus exigit, scilicet fidem vivam, quae operatur per dilectionem, & quae nunquam est sine studio bonorum operum, & serio vitae in melius mutandae proposito.
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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