The live dispute: is assurance certainty of divine faith, or only of hope/conjecture?
The real clash is nomenclature and grade: divine-faith certainty versus hope’s moral or conjectural certainty.
Rome (almost unanimously) ranks status-assurance below article-faith; Protestants commonly call it faith’s certainty.
Latin
XLI. Igitur eo redire videtur controversia quae hic inter Protestantes & Romanenses intercedit, An scilicet, certitudo quam fideles Christi gratiae participes habere possunt & debent de sua coram Deo justificatione, sit certitudo Fidei divinae; An vero solum certitudo alterius generis, & alio nomine vocanda. Prius affirmant communi consensu Protestantes: posterius, paucissimis exceptis, Schola Romana, juxta quam ista certitudo non est fidei, sed spei, seu fiduciae, cui competit certitudo certitudine fidei inferior, moralis, scilicet, vel conjecturalis, quae aliquid minus est quam certitudo moralis stricte dicta, quae gravi prorsus argumento & authoritate nititur, cum conjecturalis ex signis probabilibus colligatur; quanquam certitudo illa conjecturalis saepe latiori sensu moralis etiam dicitur.
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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