Theological Theses · §640

Faith's summit certainty referred to the Spirit's inward operation — not note-measure alone

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Whole faith-certainty not resolved into word-light or proving notes alone.

Those arguments are not the measure of its whole certainty.

Spirit stamps greater word-certainty than marks bear by themselves.

Summit cling referred to inward Spirit operation: full firm assent by a force above every argument.

Latin

XLII. Porro hinc liquere potest, quam non sine ratione alias docuerimus, totam certitudinem, quae in fide reperitur, non resolvi in ipsam verbi divini lucem, id est, in varias notas & argumenta, quibus verbum Dei tale esse se probat, nec argumenta illa esse mensuram totius ejus certitudinis, sed Spiritum Sanctum fidelium mentibus majorem de verbo Dei certitudinem imprimere quam per se ferant ejusmodi notae & argumenta: adeoque summam istam certitudinem, qua verbum Dei fides amplectitur, referendam esse ad internam operationem Spiritus Sancti, qui plenum illum & firmum assensum fidelium mentibus imprimit vi quadam quae sit omni argumento & ratione major.

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

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