Certainty of cognition vs certainty of adhesion
Moral assent can cling harder than demonstrative/experiential assent.
Scholastic split: cognition/speculation vs adhaesio.
Cognition: mind-conviction alone, object-extorted. Adhesion: also will’s effect — closer cling.
Latin
XIII. Atque hic observandum venit fieri posse ut assensus moralis quodam respectu sit in animo firmior, eique tenacius & fortius adhaereat, quam assensus alius, qui nititur demonstratione, vel experientia. Quod ut intelligatur notanda est alia certitudinis distinctio quam Scholastici nonnulli proferunt. Nimirum alia est certitudo quae dici potest cognitionis, sive speculationis, alia vero quae certitudo adhaesionis vocatur. Prior illa certitudo pendet a sola convictione mentis, sed posterior etiam ab effectu voluntatis. Priorem objectum debite propositum a mente extorquet, non expectato voluntatis consensu. Posterior vero sequitur voluntatis imperium, & consensum. Quo major est illa certitudo, quae dicitur cognitionis, eo longius omnem dubitationem a mente removet. At quo major est ista, quam dicimus adhaesionis, eo mens assensum arctius amplectitur: & firmius retinet.
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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