Vasquez: private faith of the promise necessary alongside Catholic faith for hope and justification
Vasquez not only puts fiducia inside living faith but names as faith the penitent persuasion that God will remit one sins and justify him.
Beside Catholic faith of universal dogmas and promises he requires a private promise-faith that God will not fail with efficacious help; without that peculiar faith, hope of pardon — itself a necessary disposition — cannot stand, so Trent sess. 6 c. 8 faith as salvation beginning/root covers both Catholic and private promise-faith (Disp. 210.5).
Latin
XL. Est autem hic observandum Gabrielem Vasquez non solum agnoscere fiduciam esse fidei vivae partem, sed etiam illum nomen fidei tribuere persuasioni illi, qua aliquis per veram poenitentiam se ad Deum convertens, confidit Deum sibi peccata remissurum, seque justificandum esse. Nam ad justificationem docet non tantum conducere, sed necessariam esse, non solum fidem Catholicam dogmatum, historiae, & promissionum quae universe factae sunt, sed etiam fidem privatam promissionis, qua quisque credat sibi Deum non defuturum, neque negaturum auxilium efficax, & se tandem a Deo justificandum. Nam, inquit, si aliquis existimaret Deum negaturum auxilium efficax ad salutem, omnis ad justificationem progressus & dispositio impediretur, ut manifeste constat. Inter reliqua enim necessaria ad justificationem primam debet esse spes veniae; haec autem sine fide peculiari esse non potest. Nam quamvis aliquis crederet ea quae universe promissa sunt, nempe, vere poenitentibus peccata remitti, & poenitentiae adeoque operibus bonis a Deo obtineri veniam & justificationem; tamen nisi etiam credat se iis operibus quae exercet a Deo veniam consecuturum, quae sane est fides peculiaris promissionis, non poterit nunc veniam sibi a Deo sperare, ac proinde neque justificationis compos erit; siquidem spes non minus necessaria est dispositio ad justificationem quam fides. Quocirca fidem illam quam Concilium Tridentinum Sessione sexta, cap. 8. docet esse humanae salutis initium & fundamentum, & radicem omnis justificationis, & sine qua cum Apostolo dicit esse impossibile placere Deo, & ad consortium filiorum pervenire, fidem, inquam, illam non solum esse fidem Catholicam & dogmaticam, sed etiam fidem privatam promissionis; & pertendit verba Concilii de utraque exponenda & intelligenda esse, ut videre est cap. 5. Disputationis 210. jam citatae.
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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)
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- 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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