Complete persuasion vs the minimum without which true faith cannot stand
Some define justifying faith by its complete/perfect state — firm sure persuasion of being in grace and of remitted sins.
Yet weak faith can subsist for a time without that full persuasion.
Others define by the minimum without which true faith — however small — cannot stand.
Hunger and thirst for justice; heart's rest in God. Acts of faith come next.
Latin
XVII. Adde quod alii fidem justificantem describunt secundum esse suum completum & perfectum, & secundum id quod ex se apta nata est in fideli producere. Ut qui illi tribuunt firmam & certam persuasionem quod fidelis sit in Dei gratia, & quod peccata illi remissa sint, absque quo tamen fides in fideli infirmo, saltem ad tempus, potest subsistere: alii vero fidem definiunt ex iis sine quibus vera fides, quantumlibet parva & debilis, ne ad minimum quidem constare potest. Ut qui illam definiunt per famem & sitim justitiae, & cordis in Deo acquiescentiam. Quae postea distinctius & clarius intelligentur, quum sigillatim explicuerimus varios fidei actus, secundum Scholae Reformatae Doctores.
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)
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