Yet against Protestants they argue believers cannot safely judge their faith sincere
In polemic they stress radical uncertainty about one’s own sincerity.
Self-examination, they say, yields many grounds for doubt—and rashness if one settles the question.
Latin
LII. Verum, ut supra notavimus, quando adversus Protestantes disputant, & eorum sententiam refellere conantur, multa proferunt argumenta quibus probare contendunt, fideles non esse certos de adepta justitia, ipsos nescire an sint in gratia, & an Dei odio, vel amore digni sint, eos qui convertuntur & poenitentiam agunt dubios & ambiguos esse de remissione peccatorum suorum, & dum fideles propriam conscientiam excutiunt, & inquirunt an habeant fidem vivam & synceram, & poenitentiam veram, multa se iis dubitandi argumenta offerre, nec sine temeritate judicare & statuere posse, quod ipsorum fides & poenitentia habeat eas veritatis & synceritatis notas, quas Deus necessario in justificandis exigit.
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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