Generic object = whole Word; special object = Gospel promises — as saving, not as exclusive
Most Reformed: adequate/generic object of faith = the whole Word; proper/special = Gospel promises.
Not that promises belong only to justifying faith — historical faith also believes them true, as it believes the histories.
Promises are “proper” because faith as saving and justifying is specially conversant about them.
So: whole Word is object of the faith that justifies; Gospel promises are the object whereby it justifies.
Latin
XC. Quod spectat fidei salvificae objectum, observatum est Doctores Reformatos plerosque distinguere inter objectum fidei adaequatum, genericum & commune, & inter ejus objectum proprium, & speciale, sive specificum. Objectum genericum & commune dicunt esse totum Dei Verbum, seu quicquid est credenti a Deo revelatum. Proprium vero, specificum, & speciale, promissiones Evangelii. Quod ut recte intelligatur, notandum est, dum Reformati dicunt objectum speciale & proprium fidei salvificae & justificantis, esse promissiones Evangelii, mentem eorum non esse, quod objectum istud ita sit justificantis fidei proprium, ut non sit etiam objectum fidei historicae. Fides enim historica, ex eorum hypothesi, credit veras esse Dei promissiones, non minus quam historias, quae in Verbo Dei narrantur. Sed promissiones Evangelicas docent esse proprium objectum fidei justificantis, quia fides quatenus salvat & justificat, circa promissiones illas proprie versatur. Et hoc est quod alii dicunt, totum Dei Verbum esse objectum fidei quae justificat, sed promissiones Evangelii esse objectum ejus qua justificat.
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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