Ames, Wittich, Mestrezat: heart’s rest in God — hunger for justice; refuge to mercy
Ames: faith = heart’s rest in God as author of life/eternal salvation.
Will-act embracing the good the intellect approves (Marrow I.3); virtue leaning on God’s faithfulness (I.27).
Wittich: hunger and thirst for justice + heart’s rest in God as salvation’s fountain.
Mestrezat: justifying faith = penitent sinner’s refuge to God’s mercy in Christ.
Latin
XII. Juxta Gulielmum Amesium Anglum, Professorem Franekeræ, Fides est acquiescentia cordis in Deo, tanquam in authore vitae, vel salutis aeternae; id est, ut per ipsum ab omni malo liberemur, & omne bonum consequamur. Per illam autem cordis acquiescentiam intelligit actum voluntatis, quo movetur & extendit sese ad amplectendum bonum ab intellectu probatum, ut explicat ipse mentem suam in Medulla Theologiae, lib. 1. cap. 3. Ejusdem autem operis lib. 1. cap. 27. fides ab eo definitur, Virtus qua Dei fidelitati adhaerentes nitimur ipso, ut quod proponit consequamur. Amesio hac in parte consentit supra laudatus Wittichius, siquidem illo definiente, Fides est fames & sitis justitiae & acquiescentia cordis in Deo, ut fonte & authore salutis; ut ei animas nostras in angustiis & tentationibus committamus. In Theologia Pacifica, cap. 11. num. 128. Quibus affinis est fidei definitio quam tradit vir Doctissimus Joannes Mestrezatius, Verbi Divini, dum viveret Minister apud Parisienses, in Gallicis suis Homiliis: ubi fidem justificantem dicit esse perfugium peccatoris poenitentis ad Dei in Christo misericordiam.
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.