Opponent wrongly attacks Le Blanc for denying assurance is justifying faith's formal act
From the Reformed doctrine just unpacked, that learned opponent who charges the Reformed with subverting Christian ethics attacks me without cause — as if my Certainty theses deserted common Reformed teaching.
His grievance: I deny that certain absolute trust that one's sins are already remitted is justifying faith's proper formal act — the condition or instrument of justification before God.
Latin
CXV. Porro ex doctrina Scholae Reformatae, hactenus fideliter & syncere deducta, apparet quam immerito & absque ratione, vir ille doctus & disertus, qui nuper scripsit adversus Reformatos, tanquam Christianam Ethicen subvertentes, operis sui libro decimo, capite quarto, aggressus me sit, ut eum qui communem Reformatorum doctrinam deseruerim, Thesibus ante editis, De Certitudine quam quis habere possit & debeat de sua coram Deo justificatione. Idque quia ibi affirmo fiduciam certam atque absolutam de obtenta a Deo remissione peccatorum, & nostra per Christi gratiam reconciliatione, non esse proprium & formalem actum fidei justificantis, ratione cujus sit conditio, vel instrumentum nostrae coram Deo justificationis.
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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