Vasquez: justifying faith is assent not perfect understanding; against Calvin exact knowledge
Vasquez Disp. 209.3: justifying faith is assent, not perfect understanding of the mysteries.
Against a Calvinist-sounding demand for accurate distinct cognition able to explain and defend dogmas, he holds that rude believers assenting on testimony alone have enough for justifying faith; only explored exact science is excluded, not every notitia.
Latin
XXX. Similia docet Vasquez in primam secundae, Difput. 209. capite 3. ubi titulus Capitis est, Fidem justificantem non esse perfectam intelligentiam mysteriorum, sed assensum, monstratur. Ex eo enim quod dicit Calvinus lib. 3. Institutionis, cap. 2. Non ignorantia, nec sensus nostri submissio, sed cognitione certa & explorata regnum caelorum adipisci. Colligit Calvinum, & qui eum sequuntur, in fidelibus singulis requirere tanquam ad fidem plane necessariam accuratam & distinctam cognitionem dogmatum fidei, per quam aliquis novit ea recte explicare, defendere, & aliis tradere. Contra quod ibi pertendit fidem non requirere exactam rei creditae intelligentiam & scientiam, sed solum assensum rei creditae propter testimonium. Sicut, inquit, experimento didicimus rudes revera credere multa quae neque aliis tradere, nec defendere sciunt rationibus, sed sola authoritate testimonii muniti eorum assensum habent. Et hoc sat est ad fidem justificantem. Itaque non removet a fide tanquam minus necessariam simpliciter omnem rei creditae notitiam & apprehensionem, sed exploratam tantum, ut loquitur, & exactam notitiam & scientiam, quae multo magis penetrat rem creditam, quam simplex cognitio fidei.
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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