True faith name-fight: Reformed reserve true for saving; Rome allows both senses
Whether dead idle faith is true faith is largely a name fight: Reformed reserve true for saving faith; Rome often allows true also for real Spirit-gifted assent.
Even Romans who restrict true to living faith still call dead faith true as non-feigned assent, Scriptural faith, and a Spirit gift lighting saving good — which Reformed do not deny.
Latin
XLV. An autem fides illa mortua atque otiosa vera fides dici debeat, inter se disputant Scholae utriusque Doctores. Veram esse communiter affirmant Scholae Romanae Theologi, Reformati vero negant. Sed videtur esse merum de nomine certamen. Nam Doctores Reformati verae fidei titulum tribuendum putant illi soli fidei quae revera homines salvat & justificat, quo sensu fidem mortuam veram esse non docent Scholae Romanae Doctores: imo eorum nonnulli patiuntur eo respectu, ut vidimus, verae fidei nomen ad fidem vivam restringi. Sed tamen fidei etiam mortuae atque otiosae verae fidei titulum jure tribui posse volunt, quoniam est assensus, qui non omnino ficte, sed vere Dei verbo adhibetur, quique reapse fides in Scriptura vocatur, & revera est donum Spiritus Sancti, & perfectio quaedam mentis humanae, qua in boni salutaris notitia illustratur, quod Theologi Reformati non negant.
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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