Baron of Aberdeen: four senses of fiducia — persuasion, rest, fortitude, peace
Baron (Aberdeen): four senses of fiducia to clear ambiguity.
1. Firm intellectual persuasion — redeemed by Christ’s blood; sins remitted; future deliverance and glory.
2. Inward rest in God’s goodwill — depend wholly on it.
3. Spiritual fortitude against temporal/spiritual evils.
4. Peace/serenity of conscience — quiet from servile fear.
Latin
LVIII. Sed omnium accuratissime mentem suam hac de re exponit Robertus Baronius Scotus, dum viveret, in Academia Aberdonensi Professor. Ac ne quid hic supersit obscuritatis & ambiguitatis, distinguit multiplices fiduciae acceptiones, & quatuor hujus vocis significata enumerat. Fiducia, inquit, primo modo accipitur, pro firma persuasione, seu pro firmo & stabili judicio intellectus, quo apud nos statuimus, & propter Dei testimonium in verbo suo credimus, Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, pretioso suo sanguine nos redemisse, & Deum patrem propter ejus meritum, omnia nostra peccata remisisse; eundem etiam, propter illud Christi meritum & sacrificium in cruce oblatum, liberaturum nos ab omnibus hujus vitae miseriis & calamitatibus, & tandem donaturum nos ineffabili illius gloriae aeternitate. Secundo accipitur pro intima acquiescentia in divina benevolentia & gratia, per quam toti ab illa pendemus, non aliunde auxilium salutemve exspectantes. Tertio pro spirituali fortitudine & animositate, qua animi nervos & robur opponimus malis & periculis, sive temporalibus, sive spiritualibus, cum quibus in hac lacrymarum valle conflictamur. Quarto pro pace, tranquillitate, & quasi serenitate conscientiae, seu securitate spirituali, quae quietem a servili timore importat.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.