Shaken subjective faith can still be true — unlike defective ‘scientia’
Objection: only subjective faith-grade is below scientia.
Reply: tempted/wrestling faith can still be true faith.
Weak grasp of a geometric proof ≠ true scientia — scientia excludes doubt more by kind.
Latin
XXXIV. Quod si quis dicat istud tantum probare certitudinem fidei, quam vocavimus ante subjectivam, esse scientiarum certitudine minorem, non vero certitudinem fidei objectivam, de qua jam est quaestio: Respondeo fidem illam quae actu in fidelibus tentationibus variis quatitur, & luctatur cum diffidentia, non definere esse veram fidem. Si quis vero minus perceptam haberet vim demonstrationis alicujus Geometricae, & de veritate conclusionis dubitaret, in eo non esset veri nominis scientia. Atque hoc ipso patet scientiam per se & ex suo genere dubitationem magis excludere quam fidem.
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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