Beza and Garissolius: fiducia is faith’s inseparable effect — verbal clash only
Beza, Garissolius (and du Moulin with them): fiducia is not a part of faith but its inseparable effect — coheres with faith, yet is distinct from it.
Those who make fiducia faith’s chief part mean by the name that sure persuasion of God’s grace toward me and that Gospel goods are peculiarly mine.
Beza’s side grants that persuasion as part of faith, but reserves “fiducia” for the quiet, liberty, and constancy that rise from it.
Same thing; only the wording differs.
Latin
LXXIII. Neque per fiduciam aliud intelligunt Beza & Garissolius, aliique supra a nobis citati, qui cum eo docent fiduciam non esse fidei partem, sed solum effectum inseparabilem, qui cum fide quidem indivulse cohaeret, veruntamen est ab ea distinguendus. Unde patet Molinaeum, Bezam, & Garissolium reipsa consentire cum Theologis illis, qui volunt quidem fiduciam fidei praecipuam partem constituere; sed fiduciae nomine intelligunt certam illam persuasionem, qua fidelis de divina erga se gratia & benevolentia plene persuasus est, & bona in Evangelio fidelibus promissa ad se peculiariter pertinere judicat. Nam Theologi modo nominati istam quoque persuasionem pro fidei parte agnoscunt: Sed eam nolunt fiduciam dici, & hoc nomine potius designandam existimant animi tranquillitatem, libertatem, atque constantiam, quae ex tali persuasione de Dei erga nos benevolentia oritur. Et sic cum in re ipsa utrique consentiant, modo solum loquendi differunt.
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.