Theological Theses · §1233

Much of the fight is logomachy over calling assurance divine-faith certainty

Shared foundations, quarreling labels: Protestants still say ‘divine faith’; Rome refuses because of the weaker experiential premise.

Le Blanc flags a classic logomachy under the syllogism’s weaker-part rule.

Latin

XLIII. Unde jure merito videri potest hic multum esse logomachiae, & verbalis contentionis; quandoquidem non eodem sensu negant & affirmant Doctores utriusque communionis certitudinem fidei divinae inesse illi persuasioni, quam qui fide per charitatem operante praediti sunt habere possunt & debent de sua coram Deo justificatione. Cum enim inter utrosque conveniat unde nascatur, & quibus fundamentis nitatur illa certitudo, nempe, altera propositione diserte & clare verbo Dei expressa, altera vero quae nobis innotescit conscientiae nostrae testimonio, & interno quodam sensu, quo fidem & poenitentiam propriam percipimus, Protestantibus talis certitudo videtur dici posse fidei divinae, quia Dei testimonio, etiamsi non solo nititur; Romanensibus vero contrarium videtur, quia non nititur solo Dei testimonio, sed altera propositione, quae non aeque certa est, ac illa quae expresse verbo Dei traduntur: juxta Philosophos autem in Syllogismis conclusio censetur sequi partem debiliorem.

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

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