Cling-strength from gravity of the matter, not object-evidence
Cling-strength and tenacious adhesion: not from object-evidence.
From the matter's gravity: Spirit-lit mind sees other knowledge little aids blessed life; reject this and whole-man ruin follows.
Faith removes doubt less than demonstrative scientia — yet clings and guards more anxiously.
Maybe less by speculation-certainty; surely greater by adhesion-certainty.
Latin
XLI. Quae fidei firmitas potensque & tenax in mente adhaesio ex evidentia objecti non nascitur, sed ex rei ipsius gravitate & momento. Scilicet mens Spiritu Sancto illuminata percipit quamlibet aliam cognitionem ad bene beateque vivendum nihil aut parum conferre, verum ex hac hominis beatitudinem pendere, nec posse illam rejici, nisi cum certa totius hominis pernicie: ideoque tenacius, & potentius illi adhaerescit, quam ulli qualicunque cognitioni, sive scientiae. Denique, ut breviter quae fusius dicta sunt concludam, fides non tam procul a mente dubitationem removet, quam scientia, quae demonstratione nascitur; sed tamen mens fidei tenacius adhaeret, illamque ut sic dicam, studiose magis, & anxie custodit. Et idcirco, licet fides minus certa forte dici possit certitudine speculationis, quam scientiae prorsus demonstrativae, proculdubio tamen omnibus illis certior est certitudine adhaesionis.
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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