Experimental certainty — Spirit seals the word and sonship together
Faith gains an experimental certainty.
Inward Spirit-testimony seals the word in the heart — divinity and truth sanctioned.
Same witness: Spirit with our spirit testifies we are sons (Rom 8:16).
Cannot certify sonship without certifying the Father who addresses us in the Gospel.
Latin
XLVII. Unde fidei accedit certitudo quaedam, ut sic dicam, experimentalis: & in eo quoque notare est internum quoddam Spiritus Sancti testimonium insigne valde & illustre, quo Dei verbum in cordibus fidelium obsignatur, ejusque divinitas & veritas sancitur. Nec alia ratione Spiritus Dei una cum spiritu nostro testatur nos esse filios Dei, ut loquitur Apostolus, Rom. 8.16. De quo certos nos reddere non potest Dei Spiritus suo testimonio, quin simul nos certos reddat Deum patrem nostrum esse, qui nos in Evangelio compellat atque alloquitur.
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.