Many Reformed still call non-justifying grace-persuasion faith’s specific act — against reason
So not a few Reformed doctors, seeing the force of the argument, deny that grace-persuasion (certainty that my sins are forgiven in Christ) is the act by which faith justifies.
Yet they still call that same persuasion justifying faith’s proper and specific act, and feature it in their definitions.
Le Blanc: that too leaves right reason — you cannot make a non-justifying fruit the specific differentia of justifying faith, or define saving faith by what only perfects it.
Latin
CV. Itaque non pauci Scholae Reformatae Doctores, vim rationis istius penetrantes, negant persuasionem per quam certo aliquis confidit peccata sibi esse per Christum condonata, actum illum esse cujus respectu fides nos justificare dicitur: licet eandem persuasionem dicant esse actum proprium & specificum fidei justificantis, & praecipuam ejus in fidei definitione mentionem faciant. Qua in re ipsi quoque a recta ratione discedunt. Nec enim ratio patitur, ut dicamus, actum qui non justificat esse proprium & specificum actum fidei justificantis, prout distinguitur a fide historica & non justificante: & ut salvificam fidem definiamus ab actu qui ex ea manat & enascitur quidem, sed tamen essentiam ejus non constituit, & solum ad ejus perfectionem spectat.
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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