Adhesion-certainty in faith greater than in any science
Faith’s adhesion-certainty > any science’s.
Eagerer receive, closer embrace, firmer retain than any demonstrated light.
Rather renounce all sciences than cast off faith; hardest assent to tear away.
Latin
XXXIX. Unde oritur in fide major quaedam certitudo quam sit in ulla scientia. Siquidem mens fidelis sic affecta atque disposita Dei verbum, & quae fidei sunt, avidius suscipit, arctius amplectitur, & firmius retinet: quam quidlibet aliud sub quovis tandem lumine proponatur, & quocunque demonstrationum robore confirmetur. Atque adeo vir vera fide imbutus mente animoque fixum & ratum habet omnibus aliis potius scientiis renunciare quam fidem abjicere. Nec est ulla cognitio quam ita firmiter atque studiose custodiat & retineat; Neque ullus assensus, quem aegrius & difficilius a mente sibi revelli patiatur.
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.