They reconcile by narrowing ‘uncertain’ to lack of divine-faith certainty, and ‘doubt’ to fear
Their harmonizing move: ‘ignorant’ means lacking divine-faith certainty; ‘doubt’ means fear.
Le Blanc calls that either contradiction or verbal abuse.
Latin
LIII. Qua in re aut sibi aperte contradicunt, aut vehementer vocibus abutuntur. Dicunt quidem ut ista inter se concilient, ut jam quoque fuit a nobis observatum, quum aiunt homines justos incertos esse, nescire, ignorare an sint in gratia, mentem suam esse quod ea de re non habeant certitudinem fidei divinae, neque istud sciant & cognoscant, quomodo res fidei noscuntur: Caeterum, dum ita loquuntur, se nolle a fidelibus & piis excludere notitiam & certitudinem moralem, aut conjecturalem, de sua apud Deum gratia atque justitia. Et similiter quum tribuunt fidelibus aliquam dubitationem de propria gratia, se non intelligere dubitationem proprie sic dictam, per quam aliquis neutri parti contradictionis audet assentiri, sed dubitationem quandam latius sumptam, quae alias in Scholis formido dici solet.
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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