The question means last proximate disposition — not Rivetus’s present-remission fiducia

Some faith-acts dispose nearer, some remoter, to justification.

Among the Reformed the real question is: which act makes faith the last proximate disposition on which justification follows immediately and infallibly?

Rivet, Wendelin, Pareus, and Maresius answer: present-tense fiducia that my sins are specially being remitted now.

Le Blanc cannot assent, for the reasons already given.

Latin

CIX. Sed inter actus fidei quidam sunt qui propius, alii qui remotius ad justificationem disponunt & praeparant. Quum vero apud Reformatos quaeritur, quis sit actus ille, per quem justificamur, sensus quaestionis est, ratione cujus actus, fides sit ultima illa & proxima dispositio, ad quam immediate & infallibiliter sequitur justificatio? Hunc autem actum Theologi jam dicti, Rivetus, Wendelinus, Paraeus, Maresius, volunt esse fiduciam, qua nobis persuademus peccata in praesenti speciatim nobis remitti; cui sententiae propter rationes jam dictas, assentiri non possumus.

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)
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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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