That inward impulse is not enthusiasm: it binds only what Apostles and Prophets set before us
Do not fear that admitting this Spirit impulse and instinct in the faithful opens the door to enthusiasms. The Spirit’s force and action in us differs greatly from enthusiasm.
In enthusiasm — to leave other differences aside — God slips into men’s minds and reveals things they never learned or heard from any human teacher. The Spirit, by contrast, urges believers only toward what is set before them from outside as to be believed: the Word of God handed down through the Apostles and Prophets.
Nor is the persuasion that impulse births blind or unaware of itself. The Spirit of God does not drive us to believe before he has first made the mind see the light of those things, so the intellect judges them credible and rightly believable with reason. The truth-marks the mind notes in them still do not equal the certainty the Holy Spirit stamps, and they are not that certainty’s rule and measure.
Latin
X. Non est autem metuendum ne, si impulsus ille et instinctus Spiritus sancti in fidelibus admittatur, locus detur enthusiasmis. Etenim ejusmodi vis et actio Spiritus in nobis multum differt ab enthusiasmo. Nam, ut omittam alia quae possent hic afferri, in enthusiasmo Deus ita se in mentes hominum insinuat, ut ea ipsis revelet, quae a nullo homine didicerunt, vel audiverunt. At Spiritus non instigat fideles ad credendum, nisi ea quae extrinsecus credenda proponuntur, in verbo Dei per Apostolos et Prophetas tradito. Nec etiam persuasio, quam impulsus ille Spiritus generat, potest dici caeca, et sui nescia. Non enim Spiritus Dei ad credendum impellit, nisi illa quorum prius ita lucem cernere fecit, ut ea intellectus judicaverit esse credibilia, atque merito, et cum ratione posse credi, licet, quae in illis notat argumenta veritatis, non exaequent certitudinem quam imprimit Spiritus sanctus, nec sint illius regula, et mensura.
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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