Wittich: fiducia as rest in God is of the essence — remitted-certainty may be lacking
‘Fiducia’ is used in several senses — apparent verbal disputes often hide real agreement (or reverse).
Wittich’s essential fiducia = heart’s rest in God as salvation’s author.
Rest in Christ as sufficient Savior for those who flee = of faith’s essence.
Persuasion of remitted sins (past/future) can be lacking — such believers are weak.
Learned from Widmar (Maresius’s colleague).
Latin
XLVI. Sed hic observandum est fiduciam apud Doctores Reformatos pluribus modis sumi, adeoque plures eorum, qui hac in parte diverse loquuntur, idem reapse inter se sentire: alios vero qui videntur eodem modo loqui, revera tamen quoad sensum inter se discrepare. Et Christophorus Wittichius quidem jam saepe memoratus, qui fiduciam ponit inter actus fidei essentiales, per fiduciam illam intelligit acquiescentiam cordis in Deo, ut authore & fonte salutis. Quod ut clarius reddat, dicit distinguendos esse diversos fiduciae actus. Et quatenus, inquit, per fiduciam intelligitur acquiescentia in Christo & Deo, tanquam unico fonte & authore salutis, tanquam sufficienti servatore omnibus ad se confugientibus, dico omnino ad fidei essentiam pertinere. Sed si per fiduciam intelligatur persuasio de remissione peccatorum, sive in praeterito, sive in futuro, dico posse esse fidem quae ea destituatur; sed praeterea addo, istos fideles esse infirmos. Et subjungit se hanc distinctionem primum didicisse olim ex Reverendo Widmario, celeberrimi Maresii collega. In Theologia pacifica, cap. 11. num. 139.
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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