Westminster 1647 separates saving faith (ch. 14) from assurance (ch. 18)
The 1647 Anglican Confession's framers are especially clear: formal essential faith is not assurance of grace already received.
Ch. 14 treats saving faith; ch. 18 treats certainty of being in grace — and says a true believer may long lack that certainty, await it, and struggle before obtaining it.
Latin
CXXIII. Sed praesertim manifestum est, ex iis quae supra retulimus, Theologos illos, quorum opera edita est Anglicana Confessio Anni 1647. Formalem & essentialem fidei actum non ponere, in illa persuasione, qua quis certus & securus est de Dei erga se gratia & benevolentia, & de impetrata suorum peccatorum remissione. Siquidem separatim agit illa Confessio de Fide salvifica, cap. 14. & de Certitudine quam quis habet quod sit in gratia Dei, cap. 18. Et ibi agens de ista certitudine, docet eam non sic esse de essentia fidei, quin vere fidelis possit ea diu carere, & eam expectare, & luctari cum multis difficultatibus, priusquam certitudinem illam adipiscatur.
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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