Catharinus: private divine faith of remitted sins possible without being Catholic faith-act
Catharinus denies that persuasion of obtained pardon is an act of Catholic faith or a requirement for justification.
Yet he allows the justified, without special revelation, a private divine faith that their sins are remitted when they experience in themselves the conditions under which God promised remission; Vasquez notes such assent can be divine faith if drawn from revealed principles plus evident experience (Disp. 209.3).
Latin
XXXIV. Ambrosius Catharinus autem qui Concilio Tridentino ut Episcopus interfuit, negat quidem persuasionem, quam quis habet de obtenta a Deo peccatorum suorum venia & remissione, esse fidei Catholicae actum, aut omnino aliquid ad justificationem hominis requisitum; sed tamen existimat quemlibet justificatum, sine peculiari revelatione, posse fide divina, non Catholica, sed privata, certo credere sibi esse remissa peccata, dum scilicet in se sentit & experitur ea sub quorum conditione Deus nobis in verbo promisit peccatorum remissionem. Ut enim assensus aliquis censeatur esse divinae fidei, non opus esse ut revelationi proxime innitatur, & ab ea solum oriatur, sed sufficere si colligatur ex principiis revelatis, junctis aliis quae experimento, aut alia ratione evidenter nota sunt, prout Catharini sententiam explicat Vasquez, in 1. 2. Difput. 209. cap. 3.
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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