Ames: five concurrents — faith properly in pious affection, rest, and apprehension

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Ames: five things concur in divine faith.

Knowledge of what God attests; pious affection toward God; assent; rest in God; choice/apprehension of the good shown.

Knowledge required but does not constitute faith; assent is an effect.

Faith properly = pious affection + rest in God + apprehension of the proposed good.

Latin

XXXI. Amesius autem sic ea de re Philosophatur: Ad fidem divinam, inquit, quinque ista concurrunt: 1. Notitia rei a Deo testatae; 2. Affectio pia erga Deum, quae facit ut maxime valeat apud nos ipsius testimonium; 3. Assensus qui praebetur veritati testatae, propter hanc affectionem erga Deum, ejus est ejus testis; 4. Acquiescentia in Deum ad illud quod proponitur consequendum; 5. Electio vel apprehensio rei ipsius, quae in testimonio nobis exhibetur. Primum, nempe, notitia ex ejus mente, ad fidem requiritur, sed illam non constituit. Tertium, scilicet, assensum vult esse effectum fidei. Adeoque docet fidem proprie consistere in tribus reliquis, videlicet in pia illa affectione, acquiescentia in Deum, & apprehensione boni, quod nobis in Verbo Dei proponitur. In Medulla Theologiae lib. 1. cap. 3.

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).

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