Young Du Moulin: refuge-trust justifies; sense-trust is perfection, often delayed
Young Du Moulin uses Davenant's distinction: refuge-trust (fleeing to God, embracing Christ) is justifying faith's formal cause and instrument.
Sense-trust — feeling one has already grasped Christ and received pardon — is perfection, not essence; many justified believers lack it for a time.
Latin
CXVIII. Eadem distinctione cum Davenantio utitur etiam, ut supra ostensum est, Petrus Molinaeus, Petri Molinaei filius Theologiae Doctor & Canonicus Cantuariensis, cujus quoque testimonio usi sumus in Thesibus, istis quas vellicat author ille, quicum jam nobis res est. Docet enim fiduciam illam, quae est causa formalis fidei justificantis, & instrumentum justificationis nostrae, esse fiduciam quam vocat perfugii, per quam ad Deum confugimus, & ipsi innitimur, Christumque amplectimur, & ei adhaeremus; non vero fiduciam, quae fiducia sensus ab eo appellatur; per quam sentimus nos Christum apprehendisse, & per eum veniam a Deo esse consecutos. Quinimo multos esse qui Christum vere apprehendunt, necdum tamen sentiunt se illum apprehendisse; & qui sunt coram Deo vere justificati, etsi de eo nondum certi & persuasi sint. Quoniam haec persuasio non pertinet ad fidei essentiam, sed solum ad ejus perfectionem; & est verae ac robustae fidei fructus & consequens quoddam.
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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