Theological Theses · §1234

Vega allows calling it faith’s certainty if not equated with catholic dogmatic certainty

Vega softens the label: call it faith’s certainty if you refuse equality with catholic dogma.

Trent (on his reading) blocks ‘certainty of faith,’ not every knowing ‘through faith.’

Latin

XLIV. Neque tamen illi ipsi Scholae Romanae Doctores qui certitudinem istam nolunt dici fidei divinae, multum repugnant quin nomen istud ei tribuatur, modo non aequiparetur certitudini fidei illius quam Catholicam & dogmaticam vocant. Id videre est apud Vegam, qui concedit propter Ecclesiae pacem hanc certitudinem posse commodo sensu certitudinem fidei appellari, quia a fide divina bona ex parte profluit; & ad eam fides mediate concurrit, & qui certi sunt de sua justitia, certitudinis ejus bonam partem fidei debent. Nisi enim, inquit, per fidem assentirentur illis majoribus illis propositionibus de fide, Facienti quod in se est Deus non denegat gratiam; Convertens se ad Deum toto corde, invenit & obtinet gratiam ipsius, Nunquam illi certitudinem aliquam haberent de sua gratia, &c. Additque per fidem sciri posse, An simus in gratia; neque id negare Conc. Tridentinum, sed tantum negare sciri hoc posse certitudine fidei: nimirum haec duo distinguit, scire per fidem, &, scire certitudine fidei; Et prius hic vult habere locum, non vero posterius, juxta Conc. Tridentini mentem. In Conc. Trident. decret. de Justif. lib. 9. cap. 47.

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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