Walaeus & Mestrezat: we are justified by receiving Christ, not by believing remission already past
Walaeus: the first justifying faith-act is receiving Christ with his merit unto coming remission — not believing remission already past — via will's trust after general assent.
Mestrezat's definition matches: justifying faith is the penitent sinner's refuge to God's mercy in Christ.
Latin
CXXI. Praeterea his adjungimus Antonium Walaeum, qui negat Actum primum fidei quo justificamur, esse actum illum quo creditur remissio peccatorum, sed quo recipitur Christus cum merito ejus, in remissionem peccatorum, non praeteritam, sed sequentem; atque istud non tam per assensum particularem, quam per fiduciam illam voluntatis a generali assensu sequitur. Nec alia potest esse mens Joannis Mestrezatii, cui fides justificans definitur perfugium peccatoris poenitentis ad Dei misericordiam in Christo.
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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