Vasquez: persuasion of being justified can be private divine faith and somehow aids justification
Vasquez classifies duly believing one sins are remitted and that one is justified as private divine faith, specifically different from Catholic dogmatic faith (Disp. 209.4).
Such belief can arise from conjectures under the Spirit impulse rather than as a revealed proper object; even when it does not remove all fear without special revelation, it is God gift and somehow helps toward justification.
Latin
XXXV. Et Vasquez ipse putat persuasionem illam qua quis debite credit sibi jam peccata remissa, & se per Dei gratiam justificatum esse, posse fidem divinam vocari, licet ejusmodi fides a fide Catholica & dogmatica specie differat, & pertineat ad fidem privatam: Cujus postquam varias species enumeravit, subjungit sequentia verba; Hujus etiam generis est fides qua quis credit se a Deo per orationem obtenturum id quod petit, vel spirituale, vel temporale ad spiritualia tendens. Addamus etiam fidem qua quis credit se justificatum esse. Disput. 209. cap. 4. Qualis autem sit ista fides explicat capite quarto Disputationis sequentis: Speciem, inquit, existimo fidem qua quis credit se justificatum esse & sanctum apud Deum, non quia hoc revelatum sit a Deo, & ratione revelationis, tanquam proprii objecti, sed per alias conjecturas id credat, impellente ad hoc Spiritu Sancto, ut aliquando contingit. Quae quidem credulitas, quamvis non pellat omnem formidinem, nisi quando speciali revelationi innititur, nihilominus Dei donum est, & ad justificationem aliquo modo confert.
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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