Cocceius with Wittich: faith a species of love — vs those who keep love only as effect
Wittich cites Cocceius: faith = a species of love of God as expiator and healer.
Faith connected with charity — Christ’s charity poured in the heart; who believes loves.
Opposed: Maresius, Baron, Bucanus, du Moulin, Saumur — faith in intellect alone.
They grant love is born from true faith and inseparable as effect — but not an act elicited as faith itself (lest faith = charity).
Latin
XXXIX. Et Wittichius ipse loco supra citato in confirmationem sententiae suae profert verba Coccei, dum viveret, in Academia Leydensi Professoris. Fides illa, inquit, est species amoris Dei, cum diligo Deum ut expiantem peccata, & sanantem a peccati morbo & foetu, ut sim ad gloriam ejus. Ad ultima Mosis, pag. 396. Et alio in loco, Omnino igitur fides cum charitate connexa est, cum & ipsa fides nihil sit, nisi charitatis Christi effusio in cordibus nostris, & ejus sensus & reciprocatio. Jam amat qui credit; & nisi amet, nec credit. In Examine Apologiae, pag. 209. Sed contra sentiunt multi e Theologis Reformatis, ut Samuel Maresius, Robertus Baronius, Bucanus, & denique quotquot fidem in solo intellectu locant, ut Petrus Molinaeus, & Professores Salmurienses. Nam omnes illi docent quidem Dei amorem ex vera fide nasci, & esse effectum ab ea plane inseparabilem, nolunt tamen esse actum a fide elicitum, quoniam hoc esset fidem cum charitate confundere.
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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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