Why called ‘historical’: idle contemplation, not content limited to narratives

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‘Historical’ is not ‘only Bible stories’.

It believes promises, doctrines, and precepts too.

The name tracks the manner: like reading unrelated history — bare gaze, no inward effect.

Idle speculation on the Word — not referred to practice.

Latin

II. Porro fides ista dicitur historica, non quod sit eorum solum quae historice narrantur in Scripturis. Nam qui hac fide praediti sunt vera credunt quaecunque in Verbo Dei continentur, non minus promissiones, dogmata, & praecepta, quam historias & narrationes. Sed appellatio ista sumitur a modo quo versatur haec fides circa suum objectum. Nempe veluti quum legimus historias ad nos nihil attinentes, eas nude contemplamur, nec inde commovemur & afficimur intus: ita qui fidem illam habent, quae Verbum Dei docet otiose speculantur, nec ea ad praxin referunt.

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)
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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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