Theological Theses · §1226

Even strong certainty keeps company with pious solicitude, not carnal security

Mature assurance still keeps a godly fear of solicitude.

Protestants cast out distrustful fear, not the watchful fear that wars against carnal security.

Latin

XXXVI. In eo quoque consensus est, quantacunque sit illa fiducia & certitudo, ad quam omnes fideles eniti & contendere debent, & ad quam qui sunt inter eos perfectiores perveniunt, illam tamen non omnem timorem expellere, sed esse quendam timorem qui cum eo compatiatur, & qui debeat ejus esse perpetuus comes. Etenim hic distinguunt Protestantium Theologi inter timorem dubitationis, sive diffidentiae, & inter timorem piae sollicitudinis, qui securitati carnali opponitur, cum quo jubemur nostram salutem operari. Illum foras mittit charitas, ex qua fiducia apud Deum oritur, hic vero cum spe & fiducia firmissime stat & conciliatur.

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

This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.