Molinaeus: fiducia is faith’s inseparable fruit — hope, security, quiet joy
Du Moulin sets fiducia apart from that persuasion: fiducia rises from it as justifying faith’s perpetual companion — not faith itself, but faith’s effect, without which faith is not true.
Fiducia = firm hope, constancy, security, tranquillity against terror and trembling.
In his words: terrors shaken off, will quieted in peace, joy poured out, the believer calling on God with familiar liberty.
Faith is one thing, fiducia another — its inseparable fruit: once the mind firmly assents that Gospel promises are for me, that quiet joy follows by the Spirit of adoption.
Latin
LXXII. Caeterum ab ea persuasione distinguit fiduciam, quae ex illa oritur, & quam vult esse fidei justificantis perpetuam comitem, nec fidem ipsam, sed fidei effectum, sine quo non est vera fides. Per fiduciam enim intelligit spem firmam, & animi quandam constantiam, securitatem, & tranquillitatem; oppositam terrori & trepidationi, per quam, ut verbis ejus utar, terrores excutiuntur, & voluntas placida pace componitur, & laetitia perfunditur, & fidelis Deum familiariter & multa cum libertate compellat. Censeo, inquit, aliud esse fidem, aliud fiduciam. Hanc esse illius fructum & effectum inseparabilem. Nam simulac mens firmo assensu credidit promissiones Evangelii ad se pertinere, illico terrores excutiuntur, & voluntas placida pace componitur, & laetitia perfunditur; per quam fit ut animus plenus fiducia, docente Spiritu adoptionis, Deum familiariter, multaque cum libertate compellat. De Justit. & Fide justific. parte 2. Thesi 19.
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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