Triple fiducia (future / present / past remission) — dispositive, formal, consolatory
To save calling applying-fiducia the justifying act, some distinguish three moments in it: future (sins will be remitted), present (sins are being remitted), past (sins already remitted).
On their scheme: first only disposes; second formally justifies; third consoles by sensing justification done.
They call the consolatory sense “chief” because it most immediately comforts the faithful.
Latin
CVI. Ut autem explicent quomodo nihilominus fiducia illa, quae promissiones gratiae credenti cuique sigillatim applicat, sit actus ille per quem justificamur, in fiducia ista triplicem actum distinguunt, ut verbis eorum supra exposuimus. Primus actus est quo credimus in futuro, peccata nobis esse remittenda: secundus, quo in praesenti credimus, peccata nobis remitti: tertius, quo credimus in praeterito peccata jam esse remissa. Per primum actum, juxta illos, homo disponitur quidem ad justificationem, sed donec in eo haeret, nondum est justificatus; per secundum accipit remissionem peccatorum, & actu justificatur; per tertium percipit & sentit jam factam justificationem; unde oritur ejus consolatio. Unde est quod dicunt primum actum esse dispositorium ad justificationem, secundum formaliter justificatorium, & tertium consolatorium. Quae ratio videtur, cur dicant illum esse in fide praecipuum, quia ad fidelium animarum consolationem maxime & proxime facit.
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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