Reflex certainty of already-received grace: Reformed secondary act; Rome allows sure fiducia
Most Reformed make antecedent remitted-sins certainty a reflexive secondary faith-act after justification, not the primary justifying act — which Rome denies as faith.
Yet Rome allows so sure a fiducia of obtained remission that it expels doubt and anxiety, nearly Protestant; and Catharinus/Vasquez even call that persuasion an act of private divine faith.
Latin
LIX. Licet autem plerique ex Theologis Reformatis misericordiam illam specialem antecedentem non faciant objectum fidei respectu actus illius primarii atque praecipui per quem remissionem peccatorum consequimur, constanter tamen docent fidem justificantem circa illam versari actu quodam reflexo atque secundario, hoc est, illum qui fide justificatus est, per actum fidei reflexum certum esse posse de gratia quam est a Deo consecuturus. Quod negant Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae. Sed si negent fideles & justos de impetrata a Deo remissione peccatorum suorum per fidem certos esse posse, concedunt tamen illos de ista remissione fiduciam posse concipere, & quidem ita certam, ut pellat ex animo dubitationem atque anxietatem, quod a Protestantium sententia vix differt. Adde quod non desunt in Schola Romana qui persuasionem sive fiduciam illam quam homo fidelis & justus concipit de remissione peccatorum suorum, pertendant esse cujusdam fidei divinae actum, quod supra de Catharino & Vasquez ostensum est.
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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