Calvin, Beza, catechisms: define faith by persuasion of God’s goodwill — Molinaeus, Maresius, Alting
Calvin, Beza, and popular catechisms define faith from the fiducia/persuasion of God’s grace and goodwill that saving faith carries.
Calvin/Beza: firm certain knowledge of divine goodwill, founded on grace promised in Christ, revealed and sealed by the Spirit.
Short catechism: sure trust that the Father loves me for Christ.
Near them: du Moulin (firm assent that Gospel promises are true and peculiarly mine); Maresius (gift resting in and fiducially applying those promises); Alting (knowledge plus fiducial apprehension of grace in Christ the Redeemer).
Latin
LXXXIV. Ita Calvinus, & Beza, & vulgares quidam Catechismi, fidem describunt solum ab illa fiducia, seu persuasione, quam secum trahit fides salvifica & justificans de gratia Dei, & ejus erga nos benevolentia. Nam Calvino & Bezae, ut supra retulimus, fides justificans est, Divinae erga nos benevolentiae firma certaque cognitio, quae gratiae in Christo promissae veritate fundata, per Spiritum Sanctum revelatur mentibus nostris & cordibus obsignatur. Et brevis quidam Catechismus vulgaris fidem definit esse, Certam fiduciam seu persuasionem, quam debet habere quilibet Christianus, quod Deus Pater ipsum amet, propter Filium suum Jesum Christum. Ad quas definitiones proxime accedit descriptio celeberrimorum virorum, Petri Molinaei, & Samuelis Maresii, & Henrici quoque Altingii. Nam Petro Molinaeo fides est, Firmus assensus promissionibus Evangelii, quo fidelis credit eas non tantum esse veras, sed etiam ad se peculiariter pertinere. Maresio vero, Donum quo promissionibus Evangelii in Christo, tanquam veris & certis acquiescimus, easque nobis fiducialiter applicamus. Denique Altingio, Cognitio gratiae Dei in Christo Redemptore, ejusdemque fiducialis apprehensio, qua quisque fidelis illam sibi singulariter applicat.
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.