Even Baron, Rivet, Wendelin, Pareus, Maresius deny past-remission trust is the justifying act
Even the doctors the opponent cites — Baron, Rivet, Wendelin, Pareus, Maresius — expressly deny that trust in already remitted sins is the act by which we are justified.
Baron: trust of pardon still to be obtained instruments justification; trust of pardon already obtained follows it.
Rivet and company distinguish three tenses (sins to be remitted, now being remitted, already remitted) and make only the present tense formally justifying — a subtlety Le Blanc rejects, yet it still refutes pinning past remission persuasion on them as the justifying act.
They may call assurance chief or specific for consolation and to discriminate saving from historical faith, and because Rome contested it — not because it instruments justification.
Latin
CXXIV. Imo illi ipsi Scholae Reformatae Doctores, quorum testimonio praecipue nititur autor ille, qui corruptae Christi Ethices Reformatos accusat, ut toti eorum Scholae tribuat eam sententiam, quod actus fidei per quem justificamur, sit certa fiducia de obtenta a Deo peccatorum venia, expresse & diserte negant se istud sentire; ut abunde supra probatum est, allatis verbis & testimoniis Roberti Baronii, Riveti, Wendelini, Paraei, Maresii. Baronium nempe, distinguere inter fiduciam veniae impetrandae, & fiduciam veniae impetratae: utramque ipsi esse actum proprium fidei justificantis; sed priorem praecedere justificationem, & esse ejus instrumentum; posteriorem vero sequi justificationem, nec ejus instrumentum esse. Rivetum autem, Wendelinum, Paraeum, & Maresium subtilius adhuc distinguere inter fiduciam, qua credit aliquis peccata sibi remittenda, illam qua credit peccata sibi in praesenti remitti; & illam qua credit sibi remissa esse. Primum actum juxta ipsos, hominem disponere ad justificationem, secundum eum actu & reipsa justificare, tertium vero minime, sed per eum percipi jam factam justificationem, & inde fidelis animae solatium pendere. Quam subtilitatem quamquam non probemus, certum est iis tribui non posse, nisi per injuriam, & contra veritatem, quod doceant actum illum per quem justificamur, esse illum quo statuunt fideles singuli per Christum sibi remissa esse peccata, quandoquidem verbis expressis istud negant. Idque in illis ipsis tractatibus & quaestionibus, ubi eundem actum dicunt esse praecipuum & specificum fidei salvificae actum, & per eundem fidem justificantem definiunt. Nempe dicunt illum esse praecipuum actum fidei salvificae, quia praecipue facit ad pacem conscientiae, & fidelium consolationem; & specificum quoque, quia fidem salvificam ab historica discriminat: Et expressam ejus mentionem faciunt in fidei definitione, quia de tali fiducia & persuasione maxima erat mota controversia inter Scholam Romanam, & inter Reformatam.
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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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