Perkins: access to the throne justifies; 'I believe my sins remitted' is highest, often absent
Perkins: the faith-act justification immediately follows is access to the throne of grace to find mercy in Christ.
The fifth, highest degree — distinct 'I believe my sins are remitted' — is often missing in true children of God whom mercy does not forsake.
Catechisms that define faith as full persuasion of God's love toward us describe faith at its summit, not its essence.
Latin
CXIX. Similia docuimus apud Perkinsum haberi in pluribus ejus operibus. Nam actum illum fidei, quem immediate sequitur peccatoris justificatio, dicit esse accessum ad thronum gratiae, ut apprehenso ibidem Christo, inveniamus misericordiam apud Deum. Et postea tandem succedere quintum & summum fidei gradum, qui est specialis persuasio, qua promissiones Evangelicas quisque sibi applicat. Hunc autem fidei gradum summum & perfectissimum pertendit abesse a multis fidelibus, qui nequeunt distincte & certo de se dicere, credo ego remissionem peccatorum meorum. Quorum licet fides infirma sit, vere tamen sunt Dei filii, Et nihilominus eos divina misericordia non deficit, aut destituit. Adeoque Catechismos quosdam, qui fidem dicunt esse certam & plenam persuasionem de amore Dei & favore erga nos in Christo, fidem in summo & perfectissimo sui gradu definire.
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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