Internal testimony of the Spirit — efficient cause, not a heard medium
Reformed and Roman: need Spirit’s secret operation — ‘internal testimony’.
Not an audible inner voice used as medium/argument.
Efficient cause of faith; still uses means/incentives that move the mind.
Latin
XXVI. Et omnes quidem Theologi, tam nostri, quam Romanenses, ad hoc, ut aliquis Dei verbum & revelationem, sicuti par est, suscipiat, & de ea certus reddatur, agnoscunt opus esse arcana quadam Spiritus Sancti operatione, quam communiter vocant internum Spiritus sancti testimonium. Sed nemo eorum, quod sciam, per testimonium istud intelligit expressam aliquam Dei vocem, quam fidelis intus audiat, & sentiat, & cujus authoritate, sic velut indicio, propositam extrinsecus revelationem amplectatur. Sed per hoc in genere non aliud intelligunt, quam operationem quandam Spiritus Sancti, qua fidem nobis ingenerat, & quae se ad fidem non habet instar medii, sive argumenti, quo fides innitatur, sed potius instar causae efficientis. Nec etiam, ex eorum communi sententia, interna illa Spiritus Sancti operatio necessitatem excludit aliquorum mediorum & incitamentorum, quorum intuitu mens nostra ad suscipiendam revelationem, quae ipsi proponitur, moveatur atque impellatur.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.