Fiducia as faith’s formal act — or only its inseparable effect (Garissol)

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Most Reformed: fiducia = proper formal/specific act and primary part of faith.

Others: fiducia is faith’s offspring/effect — not faith’s act properly.

Garissol (Montauban): fiducia coheres inseparably with faith but is effect, not faith itself.

Latin

XLIII. Praeterea plurimi Scholae Reformatae Doctores non solum, ut supra vidimus, fiduciam numerant inter actus fidei; sed eam esse volunt actum fidei proprium formalem, atque specificum, & partem ejus primariam. Alii tamen videntur in diversa esse sententia; docent enim fiduciam esse quidem partum & effectum fidei, non tamen fidei actum proprie dictum. Haec est inter alios sententia Garissolii, dum viveret, in Academia Montis Albani Professoris. Si quaeras, inquit, Annon Fides sit fiducia? Respondeo, Fiduciam quidem indissolubili nexu cum fide cohaerere; non tamen, si proprie loquamur, esse fidem, sed effectum, necessario quodam partu, a fide pullulantem. In Explicatione Catecheseos Religionis Christianae, ad Sectionem decimam octavam.

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)
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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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