Even Baron’s line admits grace-persuasion follows justification — it is not the justifying act
Separate question: which act is the one through which faith justifies?
Oddly, even those who call past-tense redemption/remission persuasion faith’s chief specific act (Baron, Rivetus, Wendelin, Ames, Paraeus) still admit it is not the act by which faith justifies.
It follows justification already done — they teach both at once.
Latin
CII. Sed praeterea hic est quaestio specialis de actu per quem fides justificat, & ratione cujus justificatio fidei tribuitur. Nam illi ipsi qui docent firmam persuasionem, qua statuimus Christum nos pretioso suo sanguine redemisse, & Deum Patrem propter ejus meritum omnia nostra peccata remisisse, esse praecipuum & specificum actum fidei justificantis, illi, inquam, quod mirum videri possit, agnoscunt nihilominus hanc persuasionem non esse actum quo fides justificat, sed qui justificationem jam factam consequitur: ut supra ostendimus de Roberto Baronio, Riveto, Wendelino, Amesio, & Paraeo. Qui omnes fidem describentes per fiduciam illam qua de Dei gratia erga nos certi sumus, & persuasum habemus peccata nostra esse per Christum condonata, simul tamen docent hanc persuasionem non esse actum per quem justificamur.
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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