Baron: two applicative acts — mind’s persuasion and will’s ardent love
Baron: the regenerate apply Christ’s merit and God’s mercy by two acts, not one.
First: sure mind-persuasion on God’s testimony — Christ has fully satisfied for our sins; remission, eternal justice, and life are given to us too, freely, for Christ’s merit alone.
Second: ardent love — the will embraces grace, looking for fuller sense now and clear vision hereafter.
Both required for fiducia (firm persuasion + desire); yet the first is fiducia’s formal essence, the second only concomitant — so grace is chiefly applied by the prior act.
Latin
LXXV. Nonnulli vero, ut Robertus Baronius, expresse docent fideles, seu renatos, non uno actu, sed duobus actibus, meritum Christi & Dei misericordiam sibi applicare. Prior actus est certa persuasio, seu judicium mentis Dei testimonio nitens, quo apud nos statuimus Salvatorem nostrum Jesum Christum pro nostris peccatis plenissime satisfecisse, & per consequens non solum aliis, sed nobis quoque remissionem peccatorum, aeternam justitiam & vitam donatam esse, idque gratis ex Dei misericordia, propter unius Christi meritum. Posterior actus applicativus gratiae est ardens amor quo voluntas gratiam Dei complectitur, serio expectans perfectionem istius gratiae sensum in hac vita, & claram Dei visionem in futura. Quae verba sunt Baronii in Philosophia Theologiae ancillante, Exercit. 3. Artic. 19. Ubi docet quoque utrumque hunc actum ad fiduciam requiri, quia nemo dici potest confidere, seu fiduciam habere de bono obtinendo, nisi & firmam habeat persuasionem in intellectu, & desiderium vel amorem istius boni in voluntate. Prior tamen actus, juxta ipsum, est ipsa essentia, seu ratio formalis fiduciae; posterior vero est tantum actus ei annexus & concomitans. Unde est etiam quod applicationem gratiae per priorem actum praecipue fieri docet.
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)
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- 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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