Ames: proper object of justifying fiducia is Christ — not the proposition ‘my sins are remitted’
Ames: the fiducia that leans on Christ is faith’s proper formal justifying act.
Its proper object = Christ / God’s mercy in Christ — not a proposition or axiom.
Not ‘my sins are remitted through Christ’ as the immediate object.
After justification, another act may reach that proposition’s certainty.
Explains why some speak as if that remitted-proposition were faith’s proper object.
Latin
XLIX. Ac cum fiducia illa qua Christo innitimur & ei adhaeremus, sit juxta Amesium, proprius & formalis fidei actus, qua justificans est, non debuit idem vir doctus mirari quod Amesius, eodem in loco dicat, proprium objectum fidei justificantis, qua talis, esse illud in quo fides acquiescit ad justificationem consequendam, nempe Christum, vel Dei misericordiam in Christo; non propositionem, vel axioma: & eo nomine Amesium exagitare, tanquam hominem absurdum, & nescientem quid dicat. Clarus est enim Amesii sensus: videlicet, ejus fiduciae qua Christo innitimur, & cui Amesius tribuit justificationem, tanquam actui proprio fidei, qua justificans est, immediatum & proprium objectum esse Christum ipsum, non vero hanc propositionem, mihi sunt per Christum remissa peccata: licet fides justificans, peracta justificatione, per alium actum attingat veritatem & certitudinem ejusdem propositionis. Quae ratio est, ut notat ibidem Amesius, cur nonnulli Theologi sic loquuntur, quasi ista propositio, mihi sunt per Christum remissa peccata, esset proprium objectum fidei justificantis.
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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