Ames, Wittich, Mestrezat: define faith by refuge-fiducia fleeing to mercy in Christ
Another definitional path: faith = the refuge-fiducia by which the repenting sinner flees to God, adheres, and leans on him for mercy through Christ.
Ames: heart’s rest in God as author of life/eternal salvation — freed from every evil, gaining every good.
Wittich: hunger and thirst for righteousness plus heart-rest in God as salvation’s fountain — committing the soul in straits and temptations.
Mestrezat: the repenting sinner’s refuge to God’s mercy in Christ.
Latin
LXXXV. Alii vero fidem definiunt ab alio actu, scilicet, ab illa fiducia, qua peccator poenitens ad Deum confugit, & Deo adhaeret, eique innititur, ut misericordiam per Christum consequatur. Ita Amesio fides definitur, Acquiescentia cordis in Deo, tanquam in authore vitae, vel salutis aeternae; ut per ipsum ab omni malo liberemur, & omne bonum consequamur. Wittichio, Fames & sitis justitiae, & acquiescentia cordis in Deo, ut fonte & authore salutis; ut ei animas nostras in angustiis & tentationibus committamus. Et Joanni Mestrezatio, Perfugium peccatoris poenitentis ad Dei misericordiam in Christo.
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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