Zanchi: generic living/dead split — then a stricter fiducia in the promises

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Zanchi’s broad definition: God-given virtue persuading us the whole preached Word is God’s — law and Gospel.

He splits that into living (love-efficacious) and dead.

Living = justifying; so justifying faith = Word-assent efficacious through love.

Narrower later: firm undoubted assent to promises of remission, justice, eternal life in Christ — Spirit-excited fiducia.

Latin

XIV. Similiter fides Zanchio definitur, Virtus a Deo nobis donata, qua quicquid propositum olim fuit nomine Dei a Prophetis & Apostolis, nunc autem nobis ex ipsorum scriptis praedicatur, persuasi sumus esse Verbum Dei, illudque totum, tam legem, quam Evangelium ut certum Dei verbum credimus ac profitemur. Tom. 4. lib. 1. cap. 12. de Fide, Thesi prima. Sed haec definitio fidei ipsi generica est. Nam postea Thesi secunda fidem sic definitam dividit in vivam & mortuam. Vivam, quae per dilectionem efficax est, & profert opera pietatis. Mortuam, quae hac efficacitate destituta est. Cum autem fides viva, & fides justificans sint reapse unum & idem, quandoquidem omnis fides justificans viva est, & vicissim omnis fides viva est justificans, inde videtur facile confici posse, ex doctrina Zanchii, vera definitio fidei justificantis. Nempe, si dicamus illam esse qua totum Dei Verbum, tam legem quam Evangelium, ut certum Dei verbum credimus ac profitemur, eo assensu qui sit per dilectionem efficax. Sed tamen in eodem & libro & capite, fidem justificantem aliter artius definit. Fides enim justificans ipsi est, Firmus & indubitatus assensus in promissiones Dei de remissione peccatorum, & justitia accipienda, aeternaque vita consequenda a Deo, per & propter filium Jesum Christum, ex afflatu Spiritus Sancti in nobis excitatus. Titulo De Fiducia, in Explicatione primae Theseos.

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)
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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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