Notitia: Rome grants apprehension, explicit chief articles, and useful growth in knowledge
On notitia Rome grants Reformed that some apprehension is needed to conceive faith, and explicit knowledge of chief articles for saving faith.
Implicit or rude cognition may suffice for many dogmas, yet clearer knowledge is useful and praiseworthy and should be pressed according to calling and capacity.
Latin
LX. Quod attinet ad fidei actus, quaeritur primo de notitia & cognitione rerum credendarum, An & quousque ad fidem pertineat & necessaria sit? Concedunt autem, ut ante visum est, Reformatis Doctores Scholae Romanae ad fidem concipiendam aliquam objecti credendi conceptionem & apprehensionem necessariam esse: imo ad fidem salvificam requiri expressam atque explicitam praecipuorum aliquot articulorum fidei notitiam. Denique, etsi dicant ad salutem sufficere plerorumque dogmatum religionis fidem implicitam, imo praecipuorum ipsorum mysteriorum rudem & confusam tantum cognitionem, non negant tamen utilem & laudabilem esse distinctiorem & accuratiorem notitiam rerum divinarum, ut quae magis ac magis animos in Dei amorem accendat: ac proinde fideles hortationibus posse & debere compelli, ut pro modo vocationis, & singulorum captu, in mysteriorum fidei notitia magis ac magis proficiant.
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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